apt vs urpmi

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed May 3 09:59:43 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 12:49 -0400, Gary Greene wrote:
> > * Panu Matilainen [2006-05-03 02:25:09 -0700]: 

> Yes, apt-rpm DOES handle these, and quite well as PhoeNUX OS uses the
> same version of RPM that existed in MDK 2005LE and we've noted only
> good things in apt's dep tracking for RPMs.
metadata repos which simultaneously contain both src.rpms and binary
rpms (mixed repos) aren't even close to being functional.

They work most of the time, but this is more or less random luck,
AFAICT.

Ralf





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