[Cialug] CentOS Yum error

Zachary Kotlarek zach at kotlarek.com
Tue Aug 12 17:41:08 CDT 2008


On Aug 12, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Eric Junker wrote:

> You might like the Slackware package manager. Slackware packages are  
> just .tgz files that get extracted in the root directory. They can  
> also have a post installation script. Packages have dependencies but  
> the packages manger does not check for them, rather it leaves  
> dependency management up to the sysadmin. A package database is  
> created to allow packages to be removed and upgraded.

That might be exactly the right sort of thing to add to Zinux -- I  
probably could train myself to use makepkg for installations, and I'd  
never have to argue with it about whether or not I want something  
installed. Thanks for the tip.

	Zach

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