On Monday 17 December 2001 06:04, Brian Parish wrote:
>1. install apt (apt-0.3.19cnc51-1mdk.i586.rpm) I could not find this in my 8.1 Mandrake archive. Where can I get a copy? I've heard of some really good experiences with apt from Debian people, and have wanted this on Mandrake. MandrakeUpdate/urpmi whatever it's called is OK but can eat up a lot of RAM. rpmfind is a little better at finding dependencies and installing, but not (from what I've heard) as good as apt is. I think it's debatable whether or not the Debian package format is supposed to make this depencency problem better than RPM - the feedback I have gotten suggest .deb is better. >I've found apt faster and more reliable than Mandrake's own *rpmi >(MandrakeUpdate); the downside is that it doesn't tell you when something >brand new has been added to the cooker. It also seems to ignore packages Apparently, the Debian people get around that by just doing an apt-get dist-upgrade in a cron job and wake up in the morning with any/all new additions. rsyncing a local mirror of cooker might be just as well, but that won't automagicaly install any new RPMS that it finds. Last time (back when I was using 7.2) I tried a version of apt I found somewhere on Cooker but I was not able to get it to work, mostly because of unconfigured sample files and stuff like that. I'd really like to get a resource file for apt that is well-configured for Mandrake (cooker or otherwise).
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