> you have to update your sources first, and even this doesn't always work > correctly. A freature needs to be added where it looks for the file name,
apt (from debian) and apt-get is supposed to be the Right Way to do these sorts of upgrades. Personally I have little experience with these particular tools, not having run Debian. But I think that porting it would not be that major a problem. I've tried a rpm of apt, but it was not usable because the source path files did not include any decent places to search -- which is probably more important than the software itself, is to have a decent sample paths file to start from. It's been suggested numerous times that the debian file format (.deb) is better suited to these types of problems than the rpm file format -- chiefly because of dependency issues. Supposedly, one should be able to type 'apt-get update' and get all files that have changed since the last apt-get, along with all dependencies - so that if package X gets a new version, it'll get X and new versions of packages that depend on X, and if those packages have dependencies of their own, those get downloaded too. I have yet to try this, and have yet to try urpmi, which is Mandrake's an- swer to apt-get (I guess). Even with that, you need a good source path file for it to follow. I have tried rpmfind (with --latest) which can occasionally do a good job at getting new versions, but it sometimes will get bogged down when dependencies (especially complicated ones) enter the picture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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