Well, I know thats whats alien is for, but because it's not the same
packaging system it can't check conflicting packages, so if you are not
carefull you can over write parts of a debian package.
I ran into that trouble by mitake in the past.
Also not all the files are distributed in the same places, a thing that
can also cause trouble.
I usually prefer workaroud solution then using alian for these resons.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Omer wrote:
> 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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