On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:43:06PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote:
I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat
Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of
interest to this group:
RPMs in, DEBs out
LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM
The Linux Standards Board has recently
On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:34 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
Debian (if it wants to be LSB compliant) provide a way to install the RPMs
from such a vendor.
As a sidenote, Debian does, via the rpm and alien packages.
- David Nusinow
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Thorsten Manegold wrote:
It is done on a per package basis.
So in that respect it's like rpm. No?
'apt-get install exim' will install
all libraries that it depends on and
Doesn't rpm do that too?
uninstall all mta's that it conflicts
with.
With or without asking?
The
Thorsten Manegold wrote:
As I see it after reading the comparison at
http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html
the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise.
Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like
file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps.
File
No, RPM has nothing like APT. If you have any dependency problems,
misconfigured packages, etc, one apt-get -f install will fix it. I
can set up an /etc/apt/sources.list file that points to two different
FTP sites and APT will automagically download any package I tell it to
and all of the
Hi!
No, RPM has nothing like APT. If you have any dependency problems,
misconfigured packages, etc, one apt-get -f install will fix it. I
can set up an /etc/apt/sources.list file that points to two different
FTP sites and APT will automagically download any package I tell it to
and all
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
So if I understand you and others who have replied correctly, the
main advantage is the automatic dep-resolustion via ftp.
But it seems to me that this has nothing to do with the deb format
itself. Instead it is something that results out of Debian making
It is done on a per package basis. 'apt-get install exim' will install
all libraries that it depends on and uninstall all mta's that it conflicts
with.
The .deb format is not just a package format it is a database of
information about packages, namely version, dependencies, conflicts and
It is done on a per package basis.
So in that respect it's like rpm. No?
'apt-get install exim' will install
all libraries that it depends on and
Doesn't rpm do that too?
uninstall all mta's that it conflicts
with.
With or without asking?
The .deb format is not just a package
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 06:54:32PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote:
[...]
I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that
is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and
am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things
as it's not
I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that
is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and
am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things
as it's not compatible to rpm's that I find on the net since they
aor usually for
Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
i dont have the URL handy, but since u asked for it and if u really want
perfecyly detailed/technical comparison, ask the maintainer of the debian
package 'alien' (thats the package w/c installs .rpm's like .deb's) ...
he has a website w/c discusses all that, in
Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality
between deb and rpm packages?
Thorsten, check out a nice page which Joey put up summarizing features of
the different package formats. You can find it at
http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html.
Regarding dependencies,
On: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:36:25 +0200 jdassen writes:
The .deb count is probably somewhere in the 2000-2500 range
(calculate from debian/dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz for
precise numbers).
I just counted 2479 in unstable main, contrib, non-free, non-US.
Torsten
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:
Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than
rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they
have 10434 packages listed.
AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to
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jdassen On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote:
Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But
just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they have
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