On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Micha Feigin wrote:
:Yes, the debian linux distribution has that ability.
:It automaticly checks dependency's, and downloads them together with the
:needed packages, It also uninstalls, and checks dependency's during
:uninstall.
:It can also automaticly upgrade the whole system.
:
:It can also install rpm packages (although the dependency check is a bit
:messed up in this case, due to incomapatabilitys so you have to be
:carefull)
For that purpose, there is alien program, which converts RPM packages to
deb archives. This can prevent some mess.
There is another Right Thing (tm) built into .deb's : a deb archive is
composed from two gzipped tar archives using ar. Well, all thoise
utilities are in Posix standart for apllication environment.
:On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Shlomo Reches wrote:
:
:> I know one thing that is good in Free BSD.
:> They have something much better than RPM.
:> When you want to upgrade a certain program
:> it automatically detects the depandencies and
:> get from the web any other package which is
:> needed. In RPM you will get a message that
:> a package is missing. You go download it then
:> continue and you are informed that another one
:> is missing.
:>
:> Does anybody know if such thing exists in Linux?
:>
:> Regards,
:> Shlomo.
:>
:> Dune wrote:
:>
:> >hey listdoes any one uses Freebsdand can tell me The Differnce
:> > Between FreeBsd And linuxBesides The obvius ? and by the way this is
:> > the posix user group not the linux user group since all thetalks are
:> > around a posix based unix systemsthnx and cya
:>
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