MacRPM is a new utility hosted by Source Forge Software that can display information about RedHat Package Manager files commonly used for packaging Linux software. The tool is being released in open-source form.
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Yeah sourceforge just hosts open source projects. It's like iTools iDisk. If this were hosted on someone's iDisk, you wouldn't say it's from Apple.
And then the application itself. WHY? RPM has absolutely nothing to do with Mac OS. If I want to view the contents of a RPM, I'll use the rpm command on my Linux box. If I don't have a Linux box, then why do I need to look at the RPM. Strange use of one's time.
Well, if your like me and download files on your Mac to transfer to your Linux box later, it's an usefull uttility to have.
For me there are very good reasons for downloading and archiving Red Hat RPM files on my Macintosh.
1. I prefer to work on a Macintosh and Interarchy is the best file grabber there is
2. I use Red Hat Linux (mostly as an AFP file server)
3. I would like to be able to peek inside some of the SRPMs for just the stuff that interests me
4. Why not have a "tome viewer" for foreign installer files?
And now a question: Isn't there a CAB viewer for the Macintosh somewhere out there?
Why would anyone on earth choose to use RPM... it just sucks. Better "package" managers on Linux exist... yet another example of the mindless linux craze.
RPM's suck, DPKG is the only way to go.
i'm an RPM person. i would like to know if these 'others'(deb DPKG,etc) are as easy to use an RPM? and if all these others are so good, why aren't their nearly as popular as RPM???
i'm an RPM person. i would like to know if these 'others'(deb DPKG,etc) are as easy to use an RPM? and if all these others are so good, why aren't their nearly as popular as RPM???
Hi there,
I'm the MacRPM programmer and I'd like to explain how this utility can be useful in response to a post above.
A great deal of people run both MacOS and Linux on their Mac, dual-booting. The 31 character file name limitation in MacOS often shortens the name of downloaded RPM packages, thus wiping out their version number and release. MacRPM reads the header of RPM files and displays information about the file, thus circumventing this problem.
In response to a few emails, I've decided to add support for .deb's as well in the next version.
.deb support would be very nice, and would probably help me to replace my flaky, Redhat-ish LinuxPPC installation with a completely Debian one. So thanks in advance. ;)
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It's not "from Source Forge software", because there is no such thing. It's hosted at Source Forge, which is a repository for all kinds of open-source projects. Get an idea what that site is about before misreferring to it next time.