veer66@lemmy.one to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhat is the advantage of PKGBUILD over RPM specs?message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the advantage of PKGBUILD over RPM specs?veer66@lemmy.one to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-square @hachyderm.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago@veer66 One is that it’s a shell script, so it feels like there’s less to learn. The accuracy of that can be debated. I’ve not packaged RPMs in a fair while, so I can’t make a more thorough comparison. @linux
minus-squareveer66@lemmy.oneOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago One is that it’s a shell script, Using Bash sounds convincing to me.
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One is that it’s a shell script, so it feels like there’s less to learn. The accuracy of that can be debated.
I’ve not packaged RPMs in a fair while, so I can’t make a more thorough comparison.
@linux
Using Bash sounds convincing to me.