[wplug] apt and rpm/up2date

[James O'Kane]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 bgtrio at yahoo.com wrote:
> Apt-get seems to solve a more general problem than up2date, and apt-rpm 
> doesn't seem to be "there" yet.  If I'm wrong I would be in the debt of 
> whoever exposes my error.

I tend to agree with this. They were created with two different groups in 
mind and for different reasons. apt-get is more for geeks by geeks, and 
up2date is solving a business revenue problem on the part of Red Hat.

I've tried apt-rpm, autorpm and most recently autoupdate. The last one 
I've found to be most useful for me. It does dependancy checking, and can 
work without support on the server side. It can be found here:
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/

I have a few wishlist items I would like to see in it, but over all it 
works for me.

I can do 'autoget pine' and it will download and install pine and any 
missing dependancies. I keep copies of the install CD's available on my 
localnetwork, so I don't have the untrusted source problem you mention.


-james