Re: Leaving Linux

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:31:42AM -0400, Alan Eldridge wrote:
> THanks to everyone, and of course Jeff especially, for all the help and of
> course the software.
> 
> I am off to see the Daemon. I'll stay on the list and will make an effort to
> assist with RPM on FreeBSD.

Hey, before you go, let me give you a message:

Any interest in unifying the FreeBSD packager with rpm? I've always admired
Jordan's packaging white paper from afar: sensible, sane, and simple. There's
also ports and CVSup, again very simple to generate packages from ports
tarballs and/or CVSup. Kinda rpm packaging lite, if you catch my drift ...

It also wouldn't be all that hard to add supoort for zip payloads to rpm
(I volunteer :-), and generate a header on-the-fly from the zip comments
used to supply package dependency markup for FreeBSD.

Lemme know if FreeBSD folks are so inclined ...

73 de Jeff

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