Re: [OT] Re: cfengine Mac packages, universal binaries, and mass deployment

[Tim Nelson]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Brendan Strejcek wrote:

> Chris Kacoroski wrote:
>
> > By package management I mean a tool that installs, upgrades,
> > downgrades, tracks the installed packages, allows reporting on them,
> > and uninstalls them (e.g. like apt on debian or the windows registry).
> > Mac OSX is totally lacking in that regard. There is no standards on
> > how to install a package and no database for tracking packages.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "database for tracking packages" but there

	It means that I can take simple actions which will answer these 
kinds of questions:
-       What package does this file belong to?  ( rpm -qf <filename> )
-       What files belong to this package?  ( rpm -ql <packagename> )
-       What packages are installed on this system?

	I don't know whether Mac OS has that capability or not, but that's 
what I like about a package manager (rather than just a software 
installer/uninstaller).

        :)

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