From 211fb3219c0d07b9d47ba5a5418c6c941a27f560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: xdavidwu Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 23:19:31 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] posts: choosing-distro: adjust package format section --- _posts/2021-11-21-choosing-distro.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/2021-11-21-choosing-distro.md b/_posts/2021-11-21-choosing-distro.md index 624bba3..2ac2d2f 100644 --- a/_posts/2021-11-21-choosing-distro.md +++ b/_posts/2021-11-21-choosing-distro.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This is about user-facing package manager features. Some package managers select ##### Package format -A simple internal format for packages is easier to debug, and may makes things easier when fixing a broken installation. Packages of pacman (`*.pkg.tar(.*)`) and apk (`*.apk`) are just tarball archives of its content with additional metadata written in fixed paths of the archives. For temporary fixes of broken package management tools install, we can just extract them as tarballs to root directory, without actually involving package management tools, then reinstall the packages using normal workflow with now working tools. +A simple internal format for packages is easier to debug, and may makes things easier when fixing a broken installation. Packages of pacman (`*.pkg.tar(.*)`) and apk (`*.apk`) are basically tarball archives of its content with package metadata written in fixed paths of the archives. For lazy, temporary fixes of broken package management tools install, we can just extract them as tarballs to root directory, without actually involving package management tools, then reinstall the packages using normal workflow with now working tools. #### Packaging convention -- 2.43.0