On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:29:53PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Brian France wrote: > > > David, > > I am confused here. I am very new to this Linux stuff admittedly. > > Just installed RedHad 9 on a lap top in the last month. Have this > > young guy here who has "grown up" on Linux. With his help after > > the install, I went to a site, entered a command (RPM) with some > > flags, then did various apt get commands. SO, am asking what am > > I missing in your statement below? It appears to me that apt-get > > also works for RedHat. > > It has been ported to Red Hat Linux by some third-party folk (and some > others). However, without the support of the vendor (Red Hat in this > case), it's not fully functional.
Actually: apt has originally been ported for rpm by Connectiva. It is not officially supported by RedHat. There are some apt repositories on the internet for redhat users. They are based on the RedHat distribution, but include many extra components. > > If Red Hat releases a new kernel, then someone else has to update the > repository after Red Hat's release. Isn't there an "updates" repository automatically updated from RH's updates mirrors? > > In contrast, as soon as Debian releases a new package (and it propogates > through the mirrors) apt-get on my computer automatically finds the > package. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
