Re: The rpm elevator speech

[John Pye <john pye student unsw edu au>]

Requires: extra-work-in-packaging
Provides: reproducible-systems, self-upgradable-systems,
correctly-maintained-dependencies, unified-system-info
Conflicts: quick-and-dirty-sysadmin
Obsoletes: bespoke-installers, hunting-for-files

:-)

Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:06:38AM -0400, Richard Siddall wrote:
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>>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?
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>$ 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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