On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, ext Pekka Savola wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The Debian APT tool is included in Conectiva Linux 6.0 with an RPM
> > > back-end. Are there plans to include it in RHL ? I guess it would make
> > > package installations and upgrades a lot easier than they are now.
> >
> > up2date is better than apt at updating systems, FTTB (authentication
> > of all parts, signed packages (and checking thereof), encrypted
> > communication).
>
> There are no ready tools for making your own repository though. For [a
> couple of] obvious reason[s] I suspect.
Exactly... I asked about it a while back and all I got was ominous
silence, and I can kind of understand that since RH want's to make money
from the service.
>
> Some organizations customize a few packages, add some nice extras etc.
That's one reason and another one is that there are organizations who are
not willing to let their boxes communicate with outside sources to do
something like system upgrades, for quite obvious reasons like security &
bandwidth consumption (now how do I specify up2date to use a local mirror
for the actual download even if I'd use Red Hat's system for getting the
header-information?)
>
> Also, for some this is a policy decision. At least if you want to
> automate the upgrading.
>
> In a bigger scale this would also be way faster on 100 Mbit/s
> connection ;-)
I have a hard time imagining life without apt on Red Hat based system now
that I've gotten used to it. up2date, where it can be used, does a nice
job of system upgrades but the rpm-hunting when installing software is
still the pain it always was. With apt life is .. nice :) and I can
certainly understand why Debian users are so proud about it.
- Panu -
>
>
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