On Wednesday 12 October 2005 21:03, Pascal Bleser wrote:
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 ;)
Hope it wouldn't happen in the very near future ;) As a simple example: $ ps axl | grep smart 0 1001 21282 1 15 0 24548 3420 - S ? 0:00 kdesu smart --gui 4 0 21297 21294 15 0 557048 236368 - Ss ? 2:23 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart --gui 0 1001 21842 21529 17 0 1864 628 - R+ pts/1 0:00 grep smart Note VSZ and RSS columns. And I have "only" half-gig of ram installed :( -- Best regards, Alexander.