the 'which distro' question

Harry Giles hg57
Fri Mar 2 10:11:04 PST 2007



Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>     
>
> <snip>
>   
>>>  What do you think:  does Portage know rpm?
>>>       
>> No.  Just like RPM doesn't know DEBs and DEBs don't know RPM.  They're 
>> packaging formats/systems, and they generally aren't aware of any other 
>> format/system.
>>
>> If you really want to use RPMs, then you're going down a road of pain & 
>> suffering by trying to use a distro which doesn't natively use RPMs for 
>> its packages.
>>
>>     
>
> I did expect that might be the case.
> There's this thing called 'alien' that Debian puts out that I looked at 
> for a few minutes on Google that supposedly lets one install rpms on 
> debian-based boxes.  Do you have any experience with that?
>
>
>   

I have used alien many times to convert rpm's into debs with no 
problem.  Never used it in reverse though.  Maybe you could test it on 
your existing box first.

Harry G




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