On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 05:58, Joakim Hove wrote: > Hello Debian Masters, > > I have just switched RedHat -> Debian, and so far I must say I am *very > pleased* with the conversion, mostly due to the packaging, I never > really got allong with RPM. However I still do have some (small ?) > questions about packages:
We all did, when first coming over from The Dark Side... [snip] > 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version > numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs > exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that > to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely > unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route > from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions? Two big friends of yours: # apt-cache search <regex-pattern> # apt-cache show <package-name> "apt-cache show" will show you info like Dependencies, Conflicts, and Suggests. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
