Re: The rpm elevator speech

["Kayvan A. Sylvan" <kayvan sylvan com>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:06:38AM -0400, Richard Siddall wrote:
> I've been packaging up a web application as RPMs.  While writing up the
> README file, I had difficulty coming up with a short synopsis of what
> rpm is.  (I find I tend to concentrate on the "build-once, install many"
> feature and neglect the system management aspect.)
> 
> If you had to concisely summarize what rpm is, what would you say?
> 

$ rpm -qi rpm

Name        : rpm                          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.4.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 23                            Build Date: Wed 29 Mar 2006 02:16:49 PM PST
Install Date: Fri 31 Mar 2006 12:26:51 PM PST      Build Host: hs20-bc1-4.build.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: rpm-4.4.1-23.src.rpm
Size        : 1528992                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Thu 30 Mar 2006 01:03:13 PM PST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : The RPM package management system.
Description :
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven
package management system capable of installing, uninstalling,
verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software
package consists of an archive of files along with information about
the package like its version, a description, etc.


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