-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Siegbert Baude wrote: ...
If you installed them by apt, you can simply update them by apt, too. Even if they are locked in yast.
Yep.
But what I read on this list (even by Richard Bos himself?), the longterm plannings will go to using yum not apt. For 10.0 however, apt is fine.
yum has at least two advantages over apt:
1) it's been written to support RPM "natively", where apt(rpm) is "just" a port of apt to support an
RPM subsystem instead of dpkg (the Debian package manager, which it was originally written and still
actively maintained for)
2) creating yum repositories is very easy, straightforward and fast; creating apt(rpm) repositories
is magnitudes slower and a little more complex to set up
On the other hand, what speaks for apt is that it has been used a lot, since a long time, it's
definately a very stable and well functioning piece of software, although those arguments are voided
a little because apt(rpm) is a port, not the one used by all the Debian folks.
The longterm plan is this: http://smartpm.org
SUSE Linux RPMs are here: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/System/smart
Note that the author and current maintainer of Smart is Gustavo Niemeyer, who is the guy who
originally ported apt to RPM. It's a while he's being paid full-time for implementing Smart, first
at Conectiva, then at Mandriva (Mandrake having bought up Conectiva) and now for Canonical.
That means it's very actively maintained and that the author pretty much knows his subject ;)
cheers
- --
-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
/\\