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Package formats (was: Re: suidperl)
"Gabe Turner (officer)" wrote:
>
> Yeah, I got the advisory for the rpm rpm update yesterday. Seems idiotic
> to me that they would release packages that need the _new_ rpm rpms before
> they even _release_ the new rpm rpms...
>
> Gabe
I just find it interesting that RedHat is making everyone upgrade to a
new version of RPM when they plan to move to an entirely different
package format in the 8.x series (though maybe I should keep quiet --
that will still be a year and a half or two years in the future, and
there is always the possibility that it just won't happen). From what I
understand, the new format will be a sort of über-package, which will be
used by pretty much everybody (merging the .deb and .rpm camps.. Dunno
about the Slackwareians, though ;-)
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