David Zakar wrote:
Parting shot: at least I can type "yum -y update" and be reasonably
assured that my web server will be working afterwards. The whole "RPM
sucks" thing is so 2003, Phil. :)
I hate to say it, but it still sucks ;) Ok, so it's better than
NetBSD's pkg stuff because it requires dependencies. Still I think of
that little jab at slackware ("the best that 1995 has to offer") every
time I think of redhat's rpm/up2date system.
RPM was an amazing leap forward for Linux, but since its inception
really hasn't improved much. When I think of RPM, I think of all the
cruddy upgrading that needs to be done on redhat systems. I hear from
the SuSE people that YaST is great (which uses RPM too). But just
recently a co-worker of mine needed to upgrade CentOS, and it was not
doable (even from the default install).
Maybe that's not RPM's fault, maybe that's up2date's fault (or more
precisely the repository's fault). I can't really put my finger on any
fundamental reason why .deb would operate better than .rpm, but I find
it hard to believe that every time I go back to a redhat-based system, I
run into this RPM madness again.
