On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:48, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote: > > > My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal, > > > surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when trying to > > > upgrade RPM-based systems. > > > > What about a conectiva RPM system? > > You mean "apt-rpm"? Does it *really* work, all (well, 99.44% of) > the time, like apt does? Actually it's the only RPM Dist that has Policy similar if not exactly like Debian's. So it breaks up things like Postgresql into 5+ packages depending on what you are doing. And they have fingered out most of the dependency hell RPM Kitchen Sink install Distros are all about. They take the approach Debian does, install a little at first and add what you want, then update from there.
Sounds a lot like Debian... cept it uses RPM. > > Of course, why should I talked I have this line in my /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > > > APT::Default-Release "experimental"; > > > > The recent (read as Monday Night) experimental release of XFree86 > > v4.3.0-0pre1v1... Nicely done... with nVidia 4496-2 Drivers. > > How would I put that in my sources.list? Here is all of my experimental sources: # Experimental (US vs non-US is not a distinction) deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free # GNOME Experimental deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.gnome.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free #X-Force Pre-Experimental deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/i386/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/packages sid/source/ deb http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386 ./ deb-src http://www.penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source ./ # Joey Hess' ../bleedingedge before it's # submitted to the archive deb http://kitenet.net/~joey/debian/ unstable/ deb-src http://kitenet.net/~joey/debian/ unstable/
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