Posted by: Andrea Benini
on June 03 2009
Back again,
This time it's Debian's time, when managing multiple hosts and installations sometimes happens you need to know what package owns a certain utility.
Recently I've faced a quite common problem, I'll take it as an example so it's more clear, I had a common and popular program "pdftotext" and I wanted to have it into another debian installation, quite easy isn't it ? you only need to remember what package has it.
Posted by: Laurie Clark-Michalek
on May 14 2009
This is a question that has been bothering me for a while, after realising that pacman, while being aufully close, isn't actualy perfect. Here are my requirements:
Dependecie tracking:
Posted by: mfillpot
on May 10 2009
From the Slackware-Current Changelog:
Fri May 8 18:49:03 CDT 2009
Hello folks! This batch of updates includes the newly released KDE 4.2.3,
but more noticeably it marks the first departure from the use of gzip for
compressing Slackware packages. Instead, we will be using xz, based on
the LZMA compression algorithm. xz offers better compression than even
bzip2, but still offers good extraction performance (about 3 times better
than bzip2 and not much slower than gzip in our testing). Since support
for bzip2 has long been requested, support for bzip2 and the original lzma
format has also been added (why not?), but this is purely in the interest
of completeness -- we think most people will probably want to use either
the original .tgz or the new .txz compression wrappers. The actual
Slackware package format (which consists of the layout within the package
envelope) has not changed, but this is the first support within Slackware's
package tools for using alternate compression algorithms.
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