On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Raj Mathur wrote: > Apt rocks for keeping your RPM-based system up to date. I'd strongly > recommend it to anyone who needs a good automatic package, dependency > and sources manager.
I am yet to jump on the apt bandwagon or anu auto updater for that matter except gentoo's emerge. Somehow i find the idea pretty scary, though you can always just download the rpm files and install them only manually. There are host of such applications at http://www.rpm.org/software/updaters/ anyone has come across good comparisons between them. Receently tried out mandrakeupdate, was not to happy with it, mainly because its dependencies are too aggresive, and does not give enough control. For instance when i was trying to upgrade wget it was forcing a kernel/kde upgrade as well and once you click ok for an upgrade, I couldnty find a decent way to just download the rpms for me to upgrade. It tries to go all the way, I havent looked at its man page in detail, i suspect there are commandline options to enforce what i want, urpmi is a lot less scary -- sreangsu ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
