[Gllug] 2.4.15 - package management

[Jake Jellinek]

I've taken to using urpmi and rpmdrake with Mandrake lately. Let's hear 
what people have to say about that please.. :) (my experiences are 
reasonably good, once you've upgraded rpmdrake itself first (broken in 8.1 
for cooker stuff), and selected reasonable mirrors). Is this just a front 
end for rpm btw, or is it something different? My past experience has 
always been of the compile and install variety, only just really looking at 
package management.

Having said all that, on one machine I have, urpmi (and/or rpmdrake) 
freezes the machine completely and puts the scroll lock light on every time 
I try to add a new mirror. I suspect some sort of hardware problem causing 
it, since it even happens remotely on the console, so can't be video/X 
related really. All other machines I've tried it on seem to do just fine. 
Occosionally I've had to clear the cache directories though.

All part of my "switching everyone over to Linux" campaign at the office...


Jake.


--On Friday, November 23, 2001 18:21:16 +0000 David Damerell 
<damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> On , 23 Nov 2001, Nick Mailer wrote:
>> On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 16:20, David Damerell wrote:
>>> It's a great tool relative to what the RH boys have, but it's pretty
>>> broken by Debian's standards; it was written with a fairly fundamental
>>> misunderstanding of how dpkg works.
>> Quite. Hence my question. The whole point about apt and dpkg is that
>> they work well together to resolve and automatically hold back/untangle
>> dependencies.
>
> Only they don't, sadly; they sort of fight each other. apt is less
> painful as a method for dselect, since dselect understands dpkg; but
> even so, it isn't really write.
>
> In particular, apt really doesn't handle the information about the
> desired state of packages gracefully.
>
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