Your understanding of apt-get is not quite right.
The Debian equivalent of rpm is dpkg, both deal with the installation,
upgrade and removal of packages.
The equivalent of Yast in the Debian world is either dselect or tasksel, or
if you are using KDE then kpackage can front either rpm or dpkg.
apt-get is all about resolving dependancies, and given a knowledge of what
is currently available from the repositories and what is installed, working
out what needs to be downloaded in order to install or update a given item
or to update those items already installed. This does not quite exist in
the rpm system, even with Yast as its front end. It is this function which
makes Debian worth having - no more dependacy hell.
David
Tom Duerbusch
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Now I think I know what apt-get does. It seems to be a Debian version
of RPM (for Redhat and Suse), which, I think, YaST is a nice shell
around RPM (for Suse users).
So apt-get and RPM are command line versions with YaST being an
interactive frontend.
For those keeping track with the home version, I've been downloading
for 28 hours and have obtained 3.97 MBs so far from the Suse Maintenace
Web site.
I now see the need for what I assume most shops are doing, of
automatically downloading new Suse material every night. Rather have
the machine do the retrys, instead of me.
Perhaps Suse should go back to sending out quarterly CDs if they don't
want to beef up their electronic distribution system.
A few weeks ago, I started the query on how Penguin Farms (Penguins
don't live on farms, they live off the ice shelf on the ocean. Perhaps
Penguin Farms should be Sea of Penguins?), anyway, how sites with
multiple Linux systems, keeps their systems up to date and at the same
maintenance levels. Like download everything from Suse and your images
are updated from your site. It seems to me that YOU from the Suse site,
is pretty much unreliable and a failure.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
apt-get and jigdo are both nice to help. I presume most are familiar
with what apt-get does.
