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Also consider encap
by terry chay - Feb 25th 2002 18:51:10
Also don't forget Encap which I think is
the oldest of them. I can't compare them since it's been a while. But for
Linux users, the main difference between these and rpm is that you can keep
multiple installs of the same package in at once (you do ls -la filename
instead of rpm -f filename to find out which package is which). The main
disadvantage is, you have to leave old packages installed or possibly break
package dependancies (since other packages may have been built against old
libraries). This leads to possibly large /usr/local (or whatever mount
point it's in).
It would be interesting if these packages could read the SRPM spec
files but build into it's directories (of course, most RPMs can't install
into any directory) and did the autodependency checking that rpm is good
for.
--
terry chay, Director of Engineering,
QIXO, Inc.
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Re: Also consider encap
by Peter Samuel - Feb 26th 2002 11:47:59
> Also don't forget Encap which I think is
> the oldest of them. I can't compare them
> since it's been a while. But for Linux
> users, the main difference between these
> and rpm is that you can keep multiple
> installs of the same package in at once
> ...
I haven't forgotten Encap. See the graft documentation. (graft.html) I
wasn't aware of Encap when I started graft. I have since had a look at
encap and incorporated some of its features into graft. Once again, see
graft.html.
Graft too allows you to have multiple installations of the same package.
That was the primary reason for developing it.
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