Re: [Cooker] RPM(s) worst enemy but Mandrake's best friend...

[Bryan Paxton]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Guy T. Rice wrote:
> I think the answer is to simply build tools on top of RPM.  After all, that's
> what Debian did, except they did it on top of pkg_add (or whatever it was,
> I don't recall -- pkg_add rings a bell but I think that's because I also
> admin two BSD boxes).  In any case, just as Debian built some really nice
> tools on top of their basic package installation tools, Mandrake could build
> some very nice tools on top of RPM to do everything Debian's package mgmt
> system does, without sacrificing RPM & RedHat compatibility.

*nod* I now agree this is the way to go, of course how does one set up the
repos, dep lists, etc......... for rpm ?


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