Anyone taught a redhat box to use .deb packages instead of .rpm's? I'm helping administer 100+ redhat boxes, and investigating the possibility of using dpkg/apt-get, rather than rpm, for propagating local customizations. Since the redhat file structure would probably need to be preserved, I'm thinking of a mechanism which would upgrade existing off-the-shelf redhat packages by converting them to .debs first. The other possibility would be to use rpm for off-the-shelf packages, and dpkg/apt-get for custom ones. Anyone know if the two package mechanisms can coexist?
-chris
