On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 23:51, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Sir, I've noticed you saying you'd like to try apt but you like RPM. I think your a bit confused. Apt is just package management system. It downloads and installs RPM's from the same place that you can get RPM's through YOU.
You're right; I've been mixing apples and oranges with terminology. I'm just saying that I don't have a problem keeping things straight with RPM's by hand. I guess I'm still confused about where you're coming from though. RPM's normally have the intelligence to tell me what else they need, and I've learned over the years how to deal with this. For instance, if foo-4.35.rpm needs libbar.so.2.2, then you can start with adding libbar-2.2.rpm to the install command. Failing a similarly-named RPM, you can chug through your collection with `for i in *.rpm do; echo $i; rpm -qlp $i | grep libbar; done' and find which RPM has that library. What I'm noticing with YaST2 is that it takes care just don't whyof all the dependencies very nicely, and I don't have to worry about this manual method of satifying RPM's anymore (ala Red Hat). Sure RH's gone the way of RHN, but you have to pay for that, and you can't spool up their patches to a local mirror and use that with RHN. Unless you pay for their $2500 RH Enterprise Network product, that is. (Note clients are $200 a pop over and above the server!) I noticed somewhere else, you were saying that a "LOT" of people are having problems getting YaST to install RPM's from the CD's. That was the first I've heard of it. What's going on there? Can you point me to a subject on the list where this was discussed? I guess if what I think of as a great system isn't working for you, then you'd need to use this apt4rpm product. I certainly don't want to get off the beaten SuSE track if YaST is working, and it's been flawless for me. (So far...) But I wanted to have a head's up about the trouble you're seeing. I'm still new to SuSE, and was about to convert one of a couple serious production machines from RH 7.2 to SuSE 8.2 today. I'm all ears. Regards, dk