apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:55 am, someone claiming to be Klaus-Peter 
Schrage wrote:
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> >On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp 
wrote:
<snip>
> >>Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool?
> >
> >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.
>
> 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
>

Hmmm...
Have you ever executed 'up2date -p'?

Regards, 
Tim

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