On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Chris Armstrong wrote:
>
> > Accidentally replied to the wrong address. Here's the forward of the message I
> > posted in reply to Jose Sanchez.
> >
> >
>
> There is a great tool called rpmfind which (I head) is an apt like
> tool. This searches (all) available RPM repositroies (not just one), and
> calculates dependencies. However, it doesn't seem to know I am using
> Mandrake or Cooker and just chooses the latest out of any repositroy which
> is bad. By default it should only use the repositroy for your dist. If
> spmepme knows more about this tool I think it would be worth posting. Why
> there isn't a frontend to rpmfind I don't know. But the mdk RPM tool never
> worked for me anyway.
This took is ok, and I guess it describes the general idea of what to go for.
Despite that it may take an aeon to find a package on rpmfind.net with
this tool : p but I suppose that's because of the huge respository it has
to search from but yeah : )
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