D rpm packages for Linux

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 06/24/2010 08:40 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 03:44 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> On 06/24/2010 12:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> D rpm packages now available http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html
>>> thanks to Jordi Sayol.
>>
>> Also, what about hosting a yum repository?
>
> Is that the thing that allows me to insert a line in the Synaptic
> repositories and then benefit of integration goodies? I'd love something
> like that.
>
> Andrei

Ummm.. maybe?

Yum is a package manager built on top of rpm, essentially red hat's 
counterpart to apt-get. I think the idea is each version of dmd as an 
rpm lives in the yum repository, and as new versions are released, the 
yum will semi-automatically upgrade the user's install.

The nice thing about it is the user doesn't have to go around looking 
for the download each time the next release of dmd comes out, although 
they do have to initially configure their system. Typically, the 
repository host provides a downloadable rpm which performs that action.

I don't know that it would be particularly useful for synaptic based 
linuxen (Andrei, see what you've got me doing?) though. Guess we'd have 
to make a synaptic repo too.