Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi, Here follows commentary on the major points of difference oj just the rpm and deb format (please read the URL for details regarding other package formats).
Am not sure if this is included but also add that 'rpms' are non-interactive.. no interaction at all.. period. .debs on the other hand IIRC, can do some post/pre thing.
Though i come from a rpm background and the current state of affairs is not too encouraging, addition of apt/yum has done wonders to rpm and takes care of the dependency hell (yes it did exist). Also redhat, novell and others have recently come together again to maintain RPM and take it forward from the current state.
A nice read anyways.. just to support RPM, yum adds recommendations and suggestions to RPM. Also 'binary programs allowed' sounds confusing as RPM does support packaging of binary files. Another plus of an RPM is the '-V' option to verify the integrity of an installed RPM (i am not sure if that exists in deb)
- dhawal