Quoting Hagibis Fan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> the RPM system becomes circular after many updates. You have
> to intsall one package after another in a specific order.
> it also comes to a point where one package needs another but
> that other package needs the other one! I might be missing
> a command switch or something but still, I havent been lucky
> in this regard.
Can't speak to any complications from using up2date, but /usr/bin/rpm
deals with that situation perfectly, if you just specify both packages
on the same command line ("rpm -Uvh package1 package2").
> Of course I'm doing this manually at home and thats the biggest
> reason i'm attracted to debian--i want to try that dpkg thing
> that people keeps ranting about.
Suggestion: Try the apt version for RPM that Conectiva created.
http://apt.freshrpms.net/
There's nothing wrong with the rpm package format; it's intrinsically
about the same as .deb with only minor differences. The real difference
between Debian (& compatible) and most RPM-based distributions is that
the latter lack a coherent "policy" in the Debian sense of that word.
See: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/debian-policy
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