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Setup & Installation / Re: eCS 2.2 YUM/RPM question
« on: January 31, 2013, 01:40:36 pm »
Likewise Doug, all my applications are on one partition and where possible the data produced is on yet another. The boot partition has OS/2 and that is it.
So far with RPM/YUM there has been no definitive answer to how it is designed to work. So far the answer is 'maybe' it will go on a non boot partition or 'maybe' it has to be on the boot partition.
Must it be on the boot partition or can it be on another and if on another will it allow multiple boot partitions? That is the question that must be answered!
At the moment there appears to be a move towards emulating windows with everything being placed in the boot partition. As far as I can see this is a retrograde step and should be resisted.
If it ends up that it will put everything on the boot partition then we need a simple RPM unpacker that will let us get at what is in the package and put it where we want it. In other words we will be back to the equivalent of using zip files.
So far with RPM/YUM there has been no definitive answer to how it is designed to work. So far the answer is 'maybe' it will go on a non boot partition or 'maybe' it has to be on the boot partition.
Must it be on the boot partition or can it be on another and if on another will it allow multiple boot partitions? That is the question that must be answered!
At the moment there appears to be a move towards emulating windows with everything being placed in the boot partition. As far as I can see this is a retrograde step and should be resisted.
If it ends up that it will put everything on the boot partition then we need a simple RPM unpacker that will let us get at what is in the package and put it where we want it. In other words we will be back to the equivalent of using zip files.