On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:07, Jack Coates wrote:
> About as OT as it comes, sadly...
>
> I'm needing to use an RH system, and I find that urpmi has me massively
> spoiled. Is there anything like it or a port of it for RH7.3? The old
> rpmfind/google dependencies hunt for every library and program under the
> sun is taking hours out of my day, and Ximian's red-carpet doesn't touch
> urpmi for completeness. I'm actually getting worried that the packages
> for common Perl stuff simply don't exist, as half the time I can't find
> them and end up compiling from source any way. What do other RH admins
> use, the apt-get port from Conectiva?
>
> thanks for humoring me,
Jack,
I've found extreme cursing a swearing to be helpful when dealing
with Red Hat. Even Suse is ahead of RH in this area (they are about
where MDK was around 7.2) A lot of RH users I've talked to, don't
believe urpmi is possible. (then I show it to them, but.... they have a
million excuses why it's no good.) However since urpmi is based on
perl-URPM and since the hdlist is done by the command genhdlist
(available on RH) it would seem to me that a "port" could be done. But
you'd really have to work hard on setting up a sync for the updates.
They seem to run about 3 to 1 vs MDK and SuSE. No problem just that
they have more of them.
James
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