Joe Landman wrote: > > > Mark Hahn wrote: >>> whats everyones take on centos as a cluster os. >> >> works fine for me, but I also don't think distros are very important. >> the critical things are: >> >> - must have a decent package system. yum is; I'm not familiar enough >> with urpmi or apt to know them. I think both provide appropriate >> management of dependencies. > > Yum is good, so is apt. I still have a problem with yum wanting to > install i386 binaries as well as the x86_64 ones. Haven't learned how > to stop that yet (probably simple too). > > There is much I do not like about rpm. However it has a few nice > features. I can't live without > > rpm -qa > rpm -ql package > rpm -qf file > > and am going through withdrawl as apt does not seem to provide these (or > if they do, it isn't at all obvious how/where). >
I am here with your fix: http://diablo.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/debian/apt-dpkg-ref.html Of particular interest rpm -qa equates to dpkg -l rpm -ql equates to -L <packagename> rpm -qf equates to dpkg -S <filename> Trust me, Debian based distros are the next best thing to crack cocaine. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
