[Gllug] rpms is there an easier way?

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:23:35AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> I use RH based systems rather a lot (I even derived a distro from RH a few 
> years ago) so I am fairly comfortable with them.
> 
> One time where I **really** prefer Debian though is where I have a box 
> that is missing a lot of required software. In this situation anything 
> except .deb is a right pain! ;)

apt  has been ported to work with rpm and there is a Red Hat-specific
version and archives for RH 7.2.  I've posted the links before, don't
have time to find them now.

> 
> > <bitch>
> > Apparently so I am told that Debian is a much more difficult distro to work
> > with, has out of date packages and doesn't support SMP. ;)
> > </bitch>

If a person can't work with Debian I don't rate their skills as a Linux
admin.  All it requires is the ability to work at the command line.

> 
> It's a difficult one to answer due to the way that Debian releases take so 
> long to happen and any PHB worth his tie-pin would shudder at the idea of 
> using an "unstable" release.

There are now 3 choices with Debian and have been for a while: Stable,
which is behind the times but rock solid, Unstable, which is where brand
new packages go, and Testing, where packages are moved once the bugs
have been shaken out of them in Unstable.  I moved all our servers from
Stable to Testing several months ago and haven't had a single blip.
Stable is for the absolutely paranoid.  Mind you, I have a mailhub
running Stable because it doesn't do anything else and I upgraded the
mail package itself manually.


-- 
Bruce


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