Troll bait

[David Dudek]

I've seen apt in action on debian boxes, but I work mostly with Red Hat
(WS and Fedora).  Yum seems to work quite well, and its fairly easy to set
up your own repositories for custom RPMs if you want to.

-- 
David Thomas Dudek     http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brad Bartram wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:10:12 -0500
> From: Brad Bartram <bradbartram at ccsisp.com>
> Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: Troll bait
>
> This may or may not be relevent but if you're using just a very limited subset
> of packages or if you have a very good control of your environment, red
> carpet by ximian will automatically install dependencies.
>
> On Thursday 19 February 2004 01:45 pm, Robert Meyer wrote:
> > I was poking around last night on a RedHat box.  There appears to be
> > nothing to match the Mandrake 'urpmi' application.  'urpmi' does all of the
> > cool stuff that apt-get is supposed to do.  It will pull all of the
> > dependancies when it gets a package.  This is pretty cool and neatly
> > defeats a lot of the criticisms about package management.  After wonking
> > around with apt-get on Sunday, I get a much better appreciation for urpmi.
> >
> > In Mandrakeland, the graphical package manager uses 'urpmi' when you
> > install stuff so it gains the benefit of the auto dependancy stuff.
> >
> > Hey, Peter... It isn't in RedHat :-P
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> >
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