On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:09:34PM -0400, seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:45, Jose Borges Ferreira wrote: > > Debian has that for a long time. And now Conectiva have ported the > > wonderful APT :D > > > > Just give a look at http://apt.freshrpms.net/ . It does what you > > describe : "packages as you need". > > > > With alternatives intruduced in 7.3 this will work even better. This is > > very powerful beacause you'll have a package call mta which can be > > provided by sendmail,postfix,qmai,exim,etc and combining that with an > > application that automaticlly satisfy your dependencies this will be > > great > > > > Does apt handle file-dependencies and obsoletes in rpm? Yes. For example, if you want to install a package that requires 1 or more other packages to be installed, apt will download and install the other packages as well. For examples of how apt works, look here: http://freshrpms.net/apt/examples.html APT rocks. I use it in the kickstart %post to install all updates on kickstarted boxes. Then I keep boxes up-to-date with a nightly cron job that grabs and installs the latest updates. Since APT allows you to specify 'held packages' (packages you don't want to upgrade/install), this is a safe way to maintain boxes. I highly recommend checking it out. Perhaps someday RedHat will include it in its standard distribution. There are a few APT-RPM repositories out there, but it's also very simple to setup your own. If you have a kickstart server, you're already half-way there. -- Amy Tanner amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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