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Re: Any plans on implementing chroot() in b19?
- To: GNU Win 32 <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Any plans on implementing chroot() in b19?
- From: Alex <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 11:22:09 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Is RPM in wide use under Unix as opposed to just Linux? I have used it
No, it's not widely used even within Linux. Check out someone running
Debian or Slackware, they each have their own package managers, as does
Solaris and FreeBSD, and OpenBSD, etc,etc.
> and found it very convenient, but hardly anybody distributes their
> software that way by default. :( Some Linuxer always has to turn it into
> an RPM. It would be very nice if RPM were more widely used and
> supported. Maybe making it available and compatible under NT would help.
Yes it would. I'm sure that someone could hack around to get a chroot
like thing working.
> I'm no expert, but can't you make RPMs that have just the portable
> source and no binaries?
Yes.
- alex
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