[Ilugc] deb vs. rpm
- From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Thu Feb 22 19:52:02 2007
Praveen A wrote:
2007/2/22, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Apt-rpm has been available for a long long time now.
Does the Fedora/Suse/Mandrake official repositories support apt-rpm?
Depends on what you mean by "support". I cant speak for SUSE and
Mandrake. If you mean commercial support, no. Fedora is entirely
non-commercial at this point. If you are asking whether apt-rpm exists
in the repository and whether developers would fix bugs, add features
etc, yes.
I didn't get it. Can you explain then what is the point here? Well not just
apt-get (but of course it has a big role in entire setting), the
availability of the vast majority of tried and tested packages in easy to
install way (be it CD, DVD, network or the internet). Also the ability
to do
seamless upgrades. I heard Fedora has improved much in this aspect.
The package manager is not related to the number of packages in the
repository or upgradability. One is amount of volunteers and community
and another is a combination of policy and adherence to it helped by
people, infrastructure and tools mostly in that order. A apt-get like
tool is the easier part to replicate in any distribution.
Does yum sync every time with the repositories or is that just a default
setting which can be changed. It has been a major annoyance to have it sync
for every single request (have not used it recently so can't say whether it
has changed)
It has always been a setting that you can change. See yum -C switch and
metadata expire setting in yum.conf. Man pages of yum and yum.conf has
more details. It just avoids running the necessity to run the equivalent
of apt-get update manually in its default setting.
Rahul
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