On 06/18/2011 06:52 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wanted to know is there any Linux development is going on for > building a system that supports both RPM and DEB packages to be used in a > single Distribution without use of other tools like alien. It should support > both packages on the same distro. Is there any thing under development like > this or already developed.
Take a look at smart-pm, it does dep resolution across multiple providers ( so in this case, .deb can require something provided by a .rpm ) and its quite easy to extend into things like cpan or rubygems or python-pip etc. That will solve the problem you defined here quite nicely. But - if what you are trying to do, as pointed out by other people, is to just inherit random packages over the net and hope they work ( the .deb and .rpm formats dont matter ) - its not going to end well. Even within the .deb world you cant safely take packages across distributions. hth - KB _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
