D rpm packages for Linux

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:26:09 -0500, Ellery Newcomer wrote:

> 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.


Synaptic supports both deb and RPM package repositories.

-Lars