During the bombing raid on Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:55:33 -0400, David Walluck was
heard mumbling in fear:
> Fran�ois Pons wrote:
>
> > This is "easy", release numbering is not consistent with rpm vision of sorting
> > release (or version).
> >
> > I checked rpmtools version_compare (which do the same as rpmvercmp of rpmlib)
> > and it return the first argument as always greater than the second (which is
> > absurd). But rpmlib says the second argument is always greater than the first
> > one :-)
> >
> > Use for example "4.1m" and "4m" for comparison. I tested it on rpm 4.0 only, not
> > checked for 4.0.3
> >
> > Fran�ois.
>
> Since someone finally seems to be on top of the urpmi problems, the most
> recent Mandrake Community Newsletter (I stopped receiving this by email
> for some reason, but I read it on http://www.linuxtoday.com/) had a
> review of urpmi vs. apt-get.
>
> One of the things the reviewer mentioned, and I agree, is that the
> syntax for urpmi.addmedia is unintelligible. I suggest two things.
>
> 1. Can it not require the english word 'with' as part of the arguments.
> This is very confusing, not to mention the URL syntax itself.
>
> 2. Why can't update sites be listed in a simple .conf text file? Also
> why should I have to provide the depslist in addition to the URL? It
> should assume that the directory tree follows standard naming convention
> (all I have ever seen do this), and therefore it should be able to find
> the depslist from the base URL, instead of me having to remember not
> only the URL for the site, but the exact path for the depslist.
3. Why is urpmi's list so big? when you do "apt-get update" you get a
1.44meg file, when you do "urpmi update" (or whatever the command is...haven't
used urpmi in ages due to the damn size of the depfile) you get an 8+meg file!
why? can't this be fixed?
Vox, who'd love to leave apt behind for urpmi, but can't because 8meg
vs 1.44 megs is a significant thing on dialup
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