From: jason-dated-321e0a263c46f421@mastaler.com
Subject: Re: Quimby Upgrade
Date: 12 Apr 2001 21:43:01 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010412214301.13340.qmail@nightshade.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ae5mn5zv.fsf@gnus.cvs.983032537> (Harry Putnam's message of "11 Apr 2001 20:48:53 -0700")
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Man that is lame compared to the power of rpm commands. You can't
> be serious about offering those limp pkg_* as being similar.
Possibly, but because of the relative difficulty of preparing RPMs,
you tend to be dependent on the vendor to produce them before you can
upgrade/install said software. ports/packages are much easier to
prepare, and the effort is massively distributed, so you end up
getting your software packaged and installed sooner.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-12 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 16:30 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-04 17:10 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-04 18:35 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-04 20:35 ` Matthias Wiehl
2001-04-04 20:52 ` Josh Huber
2001-04-05 1:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-05 1:17 ` Colin Marquardt
2001-04-07 5:58 ` Manoj Srivastava
2001-04-05 5:11 ` Colin Walters
2001-04-05 5:54 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-05 13:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-05 15:10 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-05 15:37 ` Oyvind Moll
2001-04-06 0:56 ` Stephen Zander
2001-04-06 0:58 ` Stephen Zander
2001-04-07 23:02 ` Arcady Genkin
2001-04-08 0:19 ` Colin Walters
2001-04-08 1:54 ` Arcady Genkin
[not found] ` <87elv4i3q9.fsf@pooh.honeypot>
2001-04-08 1:52 ` Arcady Genkin
2001-04-05 15:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-05 15:41 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-07 5:49 ` Manoj Srivastava
2001-04-05 17:26 ` Alex Schroeder
2001-04-07 5:55 ` Manoj Srivastava
2001-04-10 16:28 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-11 5:52 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-04-11 9:23 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-11 13:48 ` Gunnar Evermann
2001-04-11 14:12 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-11 14:04 ` Colin Walters
2001-04-11 14:58 ` Wes Hardaker
2001-04-11 16:58 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-11 18:38 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-12 3:48 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-12 21:43 ` jason-dated-321e0a263c46f421 [this message]
2001-04-12 22:09 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-12 23:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-12 23:24 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-23 19:33 ` my 'dated' address (was Re: Quimby Upgrade) Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-23 20:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-23 23:17 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-23 23:37 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 19:34 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-27 19:50 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 20:02 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-27 21:07 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 21:24 ` Paul Jarc
2001-04-27 21:38 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 21:51 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-28 1:05 ` Paul Jarc
2001-04-28 2:22 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-28 3:01 ` Russ Allbery
2001-04-29 13:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-29 14:13 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-29 14:53 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-29 14:18 ` Amos Gouaux
2001-04-29 14:55 ` Andreas Fuchs
2001-04-29 19:50 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-29 15:46 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-29 19:54 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-27 21:24 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-27 21:48 ` Steven E. Harris
2001-04-28 1:28 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-28 1:30 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-24 13:29 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-11 21:17 ` Quimby Upgrade Kai Großjohann
2001-04-11 23:20 ` Eric Jacoboni
2001-04-12 14:53 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-12 15:20 ` Alan Shutko
2001-04-12 15:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-12 18:07 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-12 20:36 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-12 20:56 ` Arcady Genkin
2001-04-12 4:32 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-04-12 20:22 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-04-13 1:17 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-04-13 19:07 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-04-16 12:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-09-11 22:47 Quimby upgrade Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-09-12 0:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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