Archive for the ‘RPM’ Category

A short rant on Ubuntu and dpkg: fuck you, dpkg

Friday, January 4th, 2008

A long long time ago, in a gal… in an older computer, I had Fedora. RPM — the packaging system in Fedora — was amazing in several aspects. And the aspect that continually amazed me was the transactionality of software installs: a set of packages either gets installed, or it doesn’t. No halfway installs, no broken shit. Ever.

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Posted in Fedora, Linux, RPM, Ubuntu | 22 Comments »

A primer into software package management using RPM

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Since apparently my last article ignited a small flamewar, let’s talk a bit about package management in RPM-based distros. Yeah, Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, those. And when I say package management, all I mean is software installation, really.

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Posted in Linux, RPM, Tutorials | No Comments »

I dunno what people mean when they talk about RPM hell

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

When people talk about RPM dependency hell, I really have no idea what they’re talking about. Here’s a factual look into RPM that should set the record straight:

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Posted in Linux, RPM, dpkg | 12 Comments »