[PLUG] APT-RPM

Jim Webb jimwebb at charter.net
Sun Dec 1 14:05:59 UTC 2002


Eric,

Do you only use up2date when RH notifies you that there is an errata,
bug fix, or security fix?  I believe that is the only time that it is of
value to utilize up2date.  Am I correct in this assumption?

I've noticed that up2date addresses dependency issues well.

TIA,

Jim

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 02:55, Eric Harrison wrote:

> You're trying to use packages from Rawhide? In that case you're on your
> own, no automated tool is going to help there. Rawhide constantly changes
> and offers ZERO assurances that the packages and/or package dependancies
> will actually work.
> 
> KDE releases it's own packages for RH8.0, which may or may not be of
> use to you:
> 
> 	ftp://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.5/RedHat/8.0/i386/
> 
> -Eric
> 
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