Yet another package manager

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Still being relatively bound to the world of RPM's (comfort-zone for the
moment) I am finding APT4RPM and Kynaptic/KPackage a heavenly
combination.  I figured out I was overengineering the darn thing and
downloading entirely too many dependencies.
Turns out, for SuSE 8.2, I installed apt and apt-libs and lua, but also
had to install the vendor-supplied perl-XML<something>
For 9.1 I simply installed apt and apt-lib.
And away we go.  Add in the sources for Freevo (the *real* reason I
wanted apt) and we're off.
I also found instructions for d'ling and creating a source for Packman
(one of the better RPM repositories, particularly for SuSE folken).

I'm still working with APT and DEB by way of Ubuntu and MEPIS.  Ubuntu
appears to be a better distro than MEPIS, although I'm still playing
with both.  MEPIS is KDE based so I'm continuing to give it a chance :)

David Bandel wrote:
| On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:39:02 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
| [snip]
|
|>I'm no expert on this subject by any means, so anything I say is open to
|>correction ...
|>
|>That out of the way, I'm convinced that DEB is superior to RPM for
this very
|>reason.
|>
|>When trying to install an rpm with a missing dependency it tells me which
|>*file* it is missing. It's usually something intuitively obvious like
|>
|>   libjkhlgkfj.so.x.3.8.9-4.384-a.4.9
|>
|>As if I'm supposed to know where to get such a monster. And the
developer had
|>that lib on his machine and doesn't even know it and who knows where
he got it
|>from originally. In any case my only hope is a long night of googling
trying
|>to locate this prodigal son.
|>
|>When a deb is missing a dependency, it tells me it needs the package
|>lib-fubar-perl or somesuch. Which most likely is in a repository near
to where
|>I got the first thing. In any event, the fact that the dependency is a
|>*package* means the deb packager had to actually think about where the
|>dependencies come from.
|
|
| Yep, and the program they use is called "ldd".  It will tell you what
| it needs.  What it won't tell you is what other programs might be
| called, but again, the Debian packagers are fairly good.
|
| I personally don't use apt-get often, I find the older dselect gives
| me more options.  You can purge (or not) configuration files, and when
| you upgrade, you get the new configuration file if you need it (or ask
| for it) otherwise, the old config is dealt with (or just used).
|
| RPM has never been kind about configuration files.  Too few options.
|
|
|>Now somebody can straighten me out ...  ;-)
|>
|
|
| Ciao,
|
| David A. Bandel

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