vettnerk@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agowhich linux distro do you NOT like, and why?message-squaremessage-square408fedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down110
arrow-up1283arrow-down1message-squarewhich linux distro do you NOT like, and why?vettnerk@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 11 months agomessage-square408fedilink
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·11 months agoAnything even tangential to Red Hat. RPM’s are hot garbage when it comes to packaging formats. Having said that, I use Fedora at work and Ubuntu at home.
minus-squareSootySootySoot [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoWhyfore the hate for .rpms? I’ve never had an issue on Fedora in a decade.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoIssues with building RPM’s. There’s no specification for what an RPM is (unlike say deb). Well the specification is “whatever rpmbuild version x.y.z does” and whatever other tangential packages happen to be installed on the build system. Try building an RPM for CentOS 6 on a RockyLinux 8 system, or building for both of those on Fedora. You can do it, but it’s real ball ache, and you have to jump through a lot of hoops. Compare to building a deb for any version of Debian/Ubuntu on Fedora/RHEL it’s a doddle and predictable.
Anything even tangential to Red Hat.
RPM’s are hot garbage when it comes to packaging formats.
Having said that, I use Fedora at work and Ubuntu at home.
Whyfore the hate for .rpms? I’ve never had an issue on Fedora in a decade.
Issues with building RPM’s. There’s no specification for what an RPM is (unlike say deb).
Well the specification is “whatever rpmbuild version x.y.z does” and whatever other tangential packages happen to be installed on the build system.
Try building an RPM for CentOS 6 on a RockyLinux 8 system, or building for both of those on Fedora.
You can do it, but it’s real ball ache, and you have to jump through a lot of hoops.
Compare to building a deb for any version of Debian/Ubuntu on Fedora/RHEL it’s a doddle and predictable.