On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:55:08AM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> You're both correct. The RPM format is a modified CPIO archive,
> containing a variety of sources and patches, and a spec file. 

Yep, by superset I meant superset conceptually, not
superset implementation wise.

cpio, tar, pax, zip : archive

rpm, dpkg, pkg, depot : archive + metainfo + postinstall/preinstall blah blah

Regards,
Matt
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