On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:13, Jack Coates wrote:
Red Hat definitely sucks pretty bad. I've been having to do a lot of work with 6.2 and 7.3 lately, building test environments to recreate customer-discovered bugs in. Man, I miss urpmi. up2date is just flatout broken in 6.2 (way out of support window, tell that to the thousands of customers still using it), and on 7.3 I've actually been installing Ximian's Red Carpet to get something that can do dependencies worth a damn.
While I can't argue that RedHat's own update method stinks I would point out that there are alternatives (albeit inconvenient at least initially since you need to add them manually). The k12ltsp distro is a pure RedHat du jour with certain package enhancements (mostly added packages though a couple of them like dhcpd are just modified) and includes both yum and apt-get. There are repositories with official redhat packages for both update managers. Personally, I have found either one at least as easy to use as urpmi. We use K12os or Yellowdog on all our servers depending upon platform (x86, PPC). I'm a Mandrake user on my workstation and have been since 7.1.
Installed apt-get with the tuxfamily sources. It doesn't have three quarters of the software I tried to install with it, and those it does have it says it can't install. Rather than take time to figure out what's wrong with it, I'll just rebuild this box with Mandrake 9.2 when it comes out.
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