apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Tim Wunder wrote:

>On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp wrote:
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>>Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
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>>>What do want to do:
>>>- use the apt tool as a rpm packet management utility
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>>I just want to use apt to update my systems and install new software.
>>Everything I've read makes it sound very superior to just attempting it
>>via rpm.
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>>>package from http://freshrpms.net, partly as a replacement for the
>>>up2date tool to keep my Redhat 9 system uptodate.
>>>apt-rpm, as I understand it, is similar to this, but I have never used
>>>it.
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>>I didn't realize the freshrpms.net tool was different than apt-rpm. One
>>more thing to look into.
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>I didn't think it was... I use it to maintain my RHL 8.0 system, and AFAIK, 
>it's plain ol' apt-rpm. Could be wrong though...
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>>Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool?
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>No, but you'll need to execute up2date -p to update the package list on RHN. 
>Also, if you do what I did and install kde-redhat.sf.net's KDE packages, 
>they're named differently. So RHN will think KDE will need to be updated even 
>when it doesn't. I have that problem with kde and gaim. The more current 
>packages that I have installed are named differently than RHN's, so RHN will 
>think they need to be updated.
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Sorry, but I can't confirm that. This week I installed kde v. 3.1.2 from
kde-redhat.sf.net, and I just did an "up2date" which only gave me a new 
unzip package. No kde packages were marked as to be updated, although 
Redhat have put up a new set recently due to a security issue.
Klaus