D rpm packages for Linux

[Charles Hixson]

On 06/24/2010 11:51 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> 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
More precisely, Synaptic is a front end to either deb or rpm, depending 
on which package manager your system uses.  You still need to match the 
file type to the package manager type.

(I'm not really sure whether synaptic is a front end to rpm or to yum, 
as from the user's point of view it's the same.  I rather suspect yum, 
though, as when it's using deb's it's a front end to apt-get, and 
apt-get handles the downloading.)