Difference between revisions of "Package Formats&Repositories"

Revision as of 16:13, 21 January 2008

DPKG / APT: Debian Package Manager / Advanced Packaging Tool - used by Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu).
.rpm: RedHat Package Manager Packages, used by Linux distributions - see http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/index.html .
.pkg: Solaris Packages
.msi / .cab: Windows Packages, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369425.aspx .
ports: Used by BSDs - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ports_collection .

Name	Products	Packages	Patches	Dependencies	API	virtual Packages	customization	Installation on Demand	Advertisement	User Installation	Administrative Installation	Usage Metrics	Tagging	Repository	System Maintenance
MS Windows Installer	yes	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no	no	system only
Red Hat Package Manager	no	yes	partly	yes: "provides", "requires"	?	yes	no	no	no	no (though workaround)	no (though workaround)	no	?	yes: yum, apt	yes: yum, apt
Solaris Packages	no	yes	yes	yes:	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Debian Packages	no	yes	no	yes: "depends", "recommends", "conflicts", "suggests", "replaces", "pre-depends", "breaks"	yes: libapt-pkg	yes	no	no	no	no (though workaround)	no (though workaround)	no	yes: "priority", "section"	yes: apt	yes: apt
Mac OS X bundles	yes	yes	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

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-==Overview==
+; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg DPKG] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool APT]: Debian Package Manager / Advanced Packaging Tool - used by Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu).
-;.deb: Debian Packages - used by Debian and derivatives.
 ;.rpm: RedHat Package Manager Packages, used by Linux distributions - see http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/index.html .
 ;.pkg: Solaris Packages