Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

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

KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@xxxxxxxx> 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


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