deb is better and east to use that rpm
On 2/28/07, Praveen A <pravi.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2007/2/27, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Praveen A wrote:
You misunderstood. Packages file (plain .gz or .bz2) is the metadata,Good. But does the repositories have Packages file as well?
It uses the *exact same* repositories as yum does. A repository cannot
exist without packages in it.
list of all the packages in a repository. Without Packages file (OK or
the equivalant metadata) apt-rpm can't work .
ESR deleted a critical library and proceeded to blame Fedora for that.
Package managers is not part of that equation.
There is a definite connection to how packages are managed in Fedora
and he had mentioned it before also. This was just the tipping point.
And the reason for deletion was a file conflict and that is because of
bad packaging/policy.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01092.html
Ok. Thanks for that info. I accept my assumption was incorrect.
Thats just your incorrect assumption. Read
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt
Lets agree to disagree here :-)
A repository is a set of packages and metadata. Everytime a update is
pushed out a repository can change. There is no predefined time to push
out updates and mirrors around the world resync to the master mirror
anytime they want which means that a repository can change any minute at
all. What is there to disagree about this?
In released section of the repository only changes are (security)
updates. The assumption is different in Debian-based systems and that
is why I said lets agree to disagree. Also when you install more than
one package the probability of the repository changing is not high and
that is why I thought the default value should be a good compromise
between the two differing constraints (bandwidth/time and changes in
the repository).
Anyway I rest my case here.
Cheers
Praveen
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