On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> This makes me a little sad, because I'm a Debian fanatic, but I guess them
> Debian hackers will find a way to either keep dpkg going despite this
> choice by the LSB, or find a way to migrate to RPM and still be a really
> great distribution. :-)
Awwww. <pout> Ah, well - at least this way we'll have a lot more packages
to play with! And all those RPM-based distros can have a *real* apt...
I really like debconf, and I wish that rpms' post-install scripts did
similarly useful things. Then again, I _could_ always just go for the
docs...
Speaking of package managers, I'm finding it very painful to upgrade one
of the computers here in the dorm. Redhat 7-ish, perl 5, that sort of
thing. I needed perl 5.6 for something, and I promptly ran into quite a
few dependencies.
I thought I'd grab rpmtools and urpmi from Mandrake, but that didn't quite
work out - complained about DynaLoader, which I'll fix when I have the
time. I remembered rpmfind was kinda useful, but running rpmfind --auto
perl -v didn't even give me diagnostic output. (Hmm, I should try stracing
it). I seem to remember that up2date, red carpet, and/or apt might be able
to solve my problems, but I'd like to know what other people have found
useful. =)
(I want to install Debian on this darn thing!)
Sacha 8)
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