Does anybody know of the original motivations to have dpkg ?
Hi all,
Does anybody know the original motivations for having dpkg and the apt-tools. I do remember that Ian Murdock had some issues with rpm (urpmi or whatever it was called circa '93-'94) either with dependency conflict resolution or/and the updates/upgrades. My google fu is not good at finding things which are over 10 years old so any help would be appreciated. I want to use the info. for presentation. The historical reference of dpkg in wikipedia is pretty weak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg#History as it does not delve why they wanted or had to use dpkg . I am not looking for dpkg vs rpm or anything like that but more for understanding the reasons behind it. Also want to use it in a presentation so people are aware of the same. For my part I did look at /usr/share/doc/dpkg as well as tried to parse the listing of dpkg -L dpkg to see if there are any obvious entries which tell about the early history of dpkg but was unable to see/grep the same. Any help on the same would be appreciated. I would also attempt to add any info. to the wiki article as well so the next person does not have to go through the same route. -- * * * * * Regards, * * * * * Shirish Agarwal* शिरीष अग्रवाल * My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3* 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: CADdDZR=NQi_Dv22KUQVs3NhuqUUdA3FWAamNxz0tvKY+_Sjfs Q@mail.gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/CADdDZR=NQi_Dv22KUQVs3NhuqUUdA3FWAamNxz0tvKY+_Sjfs Q@mail.gmail.com |
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