[Beowulf] hpl size problems

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Tue Oct 4 01:03:29 PDT 2005


On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 05:38 am, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> This is where I think things NEED to head.  RPM was and is in some ways
> a lovely thing.  However, I personally think it's way short on the
> metadata front, and woefully difficult to extend.

Would Debian's .deb format be better ?

They created it in 95 to be a more extensible version of whatever dpkg used 
before..

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