Ok, but what I really haven't caught on to yet, is apt-get available for Suse Linux or is the utilities that come with Suse that do the comprable things...better?
BTW, at 7:45 PM, it looks like the Suse website is cleared sufficient for me to get a wack at it.
Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
David Goodenough wrote:
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
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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.
