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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users rpm,pkg and debian installer Post 302280435 by naan on Monday 26th of January 2009 11:52:05 PM
Old 01-27-2009
rpm,pkg and debian installer

Hi,

Can someone explain what's the difference between rpm, pkg and debian installer and what is the advantage of one above the other?

Thanks
 

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SIMPLE-CDD(1)						      General Commands Manual						     SIMPLE-CDD(1)

NAME
simple-cdd - create custom debian-installer CDs SYNOPSIS
simple-cdd [options] OPTIONS
--conf Specify a configuration file --dist Specify a distribution (etch, lenny, sid) --graphical-installer|-g Enable graphical installer by default --serial-console|-s Set defaults for serial console --do-mirror Generate a local mirror --no-do-mirror Do not generate a local mirror --profiles|-p Select profiles (Examples in /usr/share/simple-cdd/profiles/ directory) --build-profiles|-b Profiles only used while building the CD --auto-profiles|-a Pre-select and automatically install these profiles --local-packages List of packages to be included on CD's local package repository --locale Select locale (language and country) --keyboard Select keyboard (console-keymaps-at/keymap debconf question) --debian-mirror Specify debian mirror (The default is: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian) --security-mirror Specify securty mirror (The default is: http://security.debian.org/) --mirror-tools List the mirror tools to be used (The defaults are both wget and reprepro) --kernel-packages List of kernel packages to be included on the CD --help|-h Display the usage message --qemu|-q Use qemu to test the built image --force-preseed Only issue a warning if a preseeding file is invalid --profiles-udeb-dist Specify distribution to pull simple-cdd-profiles udeb from --extra-udeb-dist Specify additional distribution to pull udebs from EXAMPLES
simple-cdd --profiles x-basic -g Build a custom image using the default options, except for using the graphical installer by default and the x-basic profile (/usr/share/simple-cdd/x-basic.*) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Gustavo Franco <stratus@acm.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used for others). Oct 28th, 2007 SIMPLE-CDD(1)
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