Christoph Maser wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 06.01.2009, 17:27 +0100 schrieb Del Merritt:
Dag's FAQ at:
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#D2
says:
Most repositories should already work well together. If you do find
a problem, the best thing to get this fixed is by reporting this to
both repository maintainers. If it is a genuine problem, it will be
fixed promptly.
The repositories I mix myself are: FreshRPMS, Dries, NewRPMS and
PlanetCCRMA.
I'm an apt-get user, and I'd like to have the "most complete" set of
pointers to repositories that is reasonable. Dag's mix sounds good to
me :-)
The problem is that I'm not sure what the correct additional entries in
my /etc/apt/sources.list.d should be in order to mimic Dag's mix.
I don't use apt, so i cannot help you there. But i wonder if there is
something like the yum-priorities plugin for apt
(http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities).
As noted in Nicolas' separate response, "pinning" may be the closest
homologue in apt to yum's priorities plugin.
Also just out of personal interest why did you choose apt-get over the
"oficially supported" yum? Is there any advantage?
This is not meant to be negative about apt use i am just curious.
yum is not the package manager of first choice for other distros - I
have mostly Debian-based systems (e.g., Ubuntu and "pure" Debian) here,
and I simply have a little more experience with it. If I were only
using RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, I'd not be concerned with apt for any other
reason than there are many who say it is a "better" way to manage updates.
But there are many who prefer chocolate to vanilla, or vice versa, while
still others who like them both and see no compelling need to choose on
over the other. I have been lucky and never had an "apt-get" on a
Debian system break my computer (those "two pieces" that worry most OSS
users), while I have had rpm do damage on an otherwise "correctly
maintained" RHEL system. My experience with yum is insufficient for me
to comment on its reliability and general robustness.
-Del
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