packaging

This article was first written in August 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/161).

pkg-get is somewhat a rewrite of the apt-get of to Sun's Solaris. It is a script that uses wget and the pkg suite [1] of tools from Solaris to install, upgrade, and uninstall free software easily on Solaris. The list of packages available is already impressive: http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php. To

VirtualBox is a very practical application running under Linux systems, and packaged into Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, that lets you virtualise an operating system. A bit in the same way as QEmu did it, except that, to make it short, it works better. Anyway, VirtualBox is highly dependent on the kernel of the base system you're running it on, so it is linked to the kernel packages in Ubuntu. The only problem is that, when upgrading your kernel with the usual Ubuntu package updates, you don't get an update for the VirtualBox right away.

This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/184).

Here are some links about interesting drafts of a Debian Packaging Web Applications Policy. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/webapps-common/ http://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/ DB Apps Packaging Policy