Re: DEB vs RPM

On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:34 pm, Paul M Foster wrote: > Debian (if it wants to be LSB compliant) provide a way to install the RPMs > from such a vendor. As a sidenote, Debian does, via the rpm and alien packages. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEB vs RPM

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:43:06PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu wrote: > I just received my September issue of LinuxFormat > Magazine. The following from page 62 should be of > interest to this group: > > RPMs in, DEBs out > > LINUX STANDARDS BOARDS SETTLES ON RPM > > The Linux Standards Board has rece

Re: deb vs. rpm

Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > > It is done on a per package basis. > So in that respect it's like rpm. No? > > > 'apt-get install exim' will install > > all libraries that it depends on and > Doesn't rpm do that too? > > > uninstall all mta's that it conflicts > > with. > With or without asking?

Re: deb vs. rpm

Thorsten Manegold wrote: > As I see it after reading the comparison at > > the rpm format is comparible with the dep format feature-wise. > Rpm is even ahead in some (IMHO important) areas like > file-dependencies whereas dep only supports package deps.

Re: deb vs. rpm

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > So if I understand you and others who have replied correctly, the > main advantage is the automatic dep-resolustion via ftp. > But it seems to me that this has nothing to do with the deb format > itself. Instead it is something that results out of Debian making >

Re: deb vs. rpm

Hi! > No, RPM has nothing like APT. If you have any dependency problems, > misconfigured packages, etc, one "apt-get -f install" will fix it. I > can set up an /etc/apt/sources.list file that points to two different > FTP sites and APT will automagically download any package I tell it to > and

Re: deb vs. rpm

No, RPM has nothing like APT. If you have any dependency problems, misconfigured packages, etc, one "apt-get -f install" will fix it. I can set up an /etc/apt/sources.list file that points to two different FTP sites and APT will automagically download any package I tell it to and all of the de

Re: deb vs. rpm

> Could someone please enlighten me to the differences in functionality > between deb and rpm packages? Thorsten, check out a nice page which Joey put up summarizing features of the different package formats. You can find it at . Regarding dependenci

Re: deb vs. rpm

Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > i dont have the URL handy, but since u asked for it and if u really want > perfecyly detailed/technical comparison, ask the maintainer of the debian > package 'alien' (thats the package w/c installs .rpm's like .deb's) ... > he has a website w/c discusses all that, in a

Re: deb vs. rpm

> I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that > is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and > am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things > as it's not compatible to rpm's that I find on the net since they > aor usually f

Re: deb vs. rpm

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 06:54:32PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: [...] > I heard that it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that > is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and > am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things > as it's n

Re: deb vs. rpm

> It is done on a per package basis. So in that respect it's like rpm. No? > 'apt-get install exim' will install > all libraries that it depends on and Doesn't rpm do that too? > uninstall all mta's that it conflicts > with. With or without asking? > > > The .deb format is not just a packa

Re: deb vs. rpm

It is done on a per package basis. 'apt-get install exim' will install all libraries that it depends on and uninstall all mta's that it conflicts with. The .deb format is not just a package format it is a database of information about packages, namely version, dependencies, conflicts and recomme

Re: DEB vs RPM

On: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:36:25 +0200 jdassen writes: > The .deb count is probably somewhere in the 2000-2500 range > (calculate from debian/dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz for > precise numbers). I just counted 2479 in unstable main, contrib, non-free, non-US. Torsten

Re: DEB vs RPM

> "jdassen" == jdassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdassen> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 jdassen> On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: >> Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than rpm. But >> just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RP

Re: DEB vs RPM

On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:28:57AM +1000, Shao Ying Zhang wrote: > Lots people have told me that there are more deb packages than > rpm. But just by looking at the web site rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/, they > have 10434 packages listed. AFAIK, this count include different versions, ports to non-