[Gllug] installing dpkg and apt on a non debian system?

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 22 Jun 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:22:17AM +0000, Ian wrote:
>>Hi, one of my firewalls (once could be called a mandrake 7 system) is getting
>>on a bit, its as uptodate as i can, (ive compiled and installed crap, and not
>>used rpm for yonks) however as its my only 'non debian' box i was wondering
>>about exposing it to the wonders of apt and dpkg, 
>>yes it could be a whole lot quicker to just bung in the potoato cd and dist
>>upgrade to sid, but could i just bung in a dpkg system?
>No.  You can't just turn one distribution into another, even whem they
>are both rpm based.

Actually, I once faked up a /var/lib/dpkg in order to install a few
Debian packages on a Slackware system. It worked pretty well - and Red
Hat's filesystem layout is a lot closer to Debian's than Slackware's
was back then.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?


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