Re: [Openvds-devel] RFC-OpenVDS-0001, Ideas for the future (software packages)

[Joe Cooper]

For what it's worth, I suspect RPM is a better choice for this purpose.

My reasons:

Package Database can be selected on the command line--so hacking it to 
suit a VDS will be extremely easy.  Probably even a shell script wrapper 
will do it.

Root directory can be selected at runtime.  This is good for the same 
reasons above.  Give the VDS admin a 'rpm' shell script that runs RPM 
with the correct database and root directory, and life is golden.

Red Hat is already the system VDS is based on.  APT is available from 
Connectiva for RPMs, but I don't know how well it works, and whether it 
would be suitable without mods.

Dave Cost wrote:

> > It should be pretty easy to take APT, empty all it's prior knowledge and
> > drop it into the system with a fresh and empty Package Database;  *If* the
> > question of how to make APT execute within the hosting-server (and modify
> > all skels) when required, and how to make it only execute
> > chroot()ed within
> > the VS when installing local packages like MySQL/vs Postgres.
>
> I have never heard of APT yet. Where's the homepage so I can understand it
> better?
>
> Dave.

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