[wplug] I'm bringing Fedora Core 1

Jonathan S Billings billings at negate.org
Fri Mar 12 16:46:34 EST 2004


the apt-rpm package gives you the utility of apt-get with rpms instead
of debs.  It's quite nice, I prefer it over redhat's up2date or yum.

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 16:42, Steven Leach wrote:
> > Oh well, their loss! Besides, that gives me a chance to evangelize for 
> > APT on Red Hat/Fedora again! If folks have Core 1, they'll be able to 
> > download all of Core 2 when they want it.
> 
> "apt" on .rpm based distributions?  I'm assuming, of course, that "apt" 
> in this instance doesn't actually refer to the excellent, powerful, and 
> robust dpkg package management system found in Debian?  If it did, that 
> would be great!  I can just picture it now:
> 
> redhat:$ apt-get update
> redhat:$ apt-get dist-upgrade
> ....
> Welcome to Debian
> 
> debian:$
> 
> The Hell with Boot-Floppies or that worthless Sarge installer, I'll 
> just install RedHat and then upgrage ;-)
> 
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