Requires: extra-work-in-packaging Provides: reproducible-systems, self-upgradable-systems, correctly-maintained-dependencies, unified-system-info Conflicts: quick-and-dirty-sysadmin Obsoletes: bespoke-installers, hunting-for-files :-) Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: >On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:06:38AM -0400, Richard Siddall wrote: > > >>I've been packaging up a web application as RPMs. While writing up the >>README file, I had difficulty coming up with a short synopsis of what >>rpm is. (I find I tend to concentrate on the "build-once, install many" >>feature and neglect the system management aspect.) >> >>If you had to concisely summarize what rpm is, what would you say? >> >> >> > >$ rpm -qi rpm > >Name : rpm Relocations: (not relocatable) >Version : 4.4.1 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. >Release : 23 Build Date: Wed 29 Mar 2006 02:16:49 PM PST >Install Date: Fri 31 Mar 2006 12:26:51 PM PST Build Host: hs20-bc1-4.build.redhat.com >Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: rpm-4.4.1-23.src.rpm >Size : 1528992 License: GPL >Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 30 Mar 2006 01:03:13 PM PST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 >Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> >Summary : The RPM package management system. >Description : >The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven >package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, >verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software >package consists of an archive of files along with information about >the package like its version, a description, etc. > > > > -- John Pye http://pye.dyndns.org _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
