From: Alain Magloire Message-Id: <199905161721.NAA11293@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA> Subject: Re: rpm Home Page [Was: DSM/scripting spec, version 0.1] To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:21:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <373EF32F.30BB35B7@bigfoot.com> from "Richard Dawe" at May 16, 99 05:32:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Bonjour M. Richard Dawe > > Hello. > > Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > > You mentioned earlier that your zippo is like rpm. Could you give me > > some links to the info about it? If you will support rpm's interface, > > then I can start developing front-end. > > http://www.rpm.org/ is rpm's home page. The HOWTO is probably the best > place to start. I think there will probably have to be some extra install > options to enable/disable execution of scripts on install, etc., but I > plan to make zippo's parameters as close to rpm's as possible. I'll be > able to tell you more when I actually start coding proper. I did not follow this thread, but did you look at the way other distributions implement there package installer ? Debian for example use dpkg. I don't know much about rpm nor dpkg but I heard good things about them. -- au revoir, alain ---- Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!