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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