FreeBSD hacker 101

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> KAYVEN  RIESE <kayve at sfsu.edu> writes:
>> i don't recognize that as what i said, but i was trying to make the
>> point that BSD DOESn't use rpm compression, and that was a point i
>> was trying to make in terms of comparison/contrast
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "rpm compression", since rpm is not a
> compression algorithm but a set of tools and a file format (based on
> gzipped cpio archives) used by those tools.

gzip is compression.  okay it is an archiver.  all i know is that
standard old boys unix uses *.tgz which is a mix of compression
and archiving with tar.  i have only encountered rpm sporatically
because i have not done a lot of linux, but i know that when you
enounter a package to be installed it seemed to me *.rpm is an
alternative to *.tgz

>
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
>

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