Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Samedi 13 Septembre 2003 04:05, Guillaume Rousse a écrit : > Ainsi parlait Pierre Jarillon : > If you're interested in xml, see what was done in JPackage project to > produce redhat and mandrake spec from the same base XML file. > > http://www.zarb.org/horde/chora/cvs.php/xml-spec?rt=jpackage&H

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Ainsi parlait Pierre Jarillon : > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 17:07, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > > It would be nice to make a package for Mandrake and > > > Debian with the same tool. > > > > what would be the benefit ? > > To reduce the amount of time needed and spent to make packages. You're

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 17:07, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > It would be nice to make a package for Mandrake and > > Debian with the same tool. > what would be the benefit ? To reduce the amount of time needed and spent to make packages. > being able to install the same package on the 2 dis

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Scherer
On Friday 12 September 2003 22:09, Christiaan Welvaart wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: > > or you can use synaptics. > > it reminds me that it is not packaged for contribs :/ > > I packaged it months ago, after I fixed apt to work with cooker > mirrors directly. But it looks li

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Christiaan Welvaart
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2003 13:02, vbnh fdgfd wrote: > > Apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/) have the same fonctionality > > as URPMI. Note that apt4rpm and apt-rpm are different tools, apt-rpm is a fork of debian apt, apt4rpm is some kind of ge

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread François Pons
Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I quote a reply from Pixel here, from February 24 2002 (Yes, it was discussed > before :-) ) > > > there was a moment where we had 2 solutions, both time costly: > - dump urpmi, and switch to apt-get > - enhance urpmi > > cons for switching to apt-get: >

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Scherer
On Friday 12 September 2003 16:19, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 15:11, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > > Le ven 12/09/2003 à 14:49, Pierre Jarillon a écrit : > > > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 13:27, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > > > > urpmi is THE killer feature of Mandr

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Marcel Pol
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:28:50 + "_ cosmicflo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I could agree if apt and urpmi were only for the same purpose, but did > >urpmi-parallel (possibility to install on many differents machines of a > >cluster -may be a subnetwork-) exists for apt for example ? > > If

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread _ cosmicflo
I could agree if apt and urpmi were only for the same purpose, but did urpmi-parallel (possibility to install on many differents machines of a cluster -may be a subnetwork-) exists for apt for example ? If this feature is so great, why don't include it in apt4rpm ? Both are opensource, no ? If you

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 15:11, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > Le ven 12/09/2003 à 14:49, Pierre Jarillon a écrit : > > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 13:27, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > > > urpmi is THE killer feature of Mandrake above all others distributions. > > > Apt was a must, but for

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Teletchéa Stéphane
Le ven 12/09/2003 à 14:49, Pierre Jarillon a écrit : > Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 13:27, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > > > urpmi is THE killer feature of Mandrake above all others distributions. > > Apt was a must, but for now, it seems urpmi is better (from my point of > > view ...) > > Free

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Vendredi 12 Septembre 2003 13:27, Teletchéa Stéphane a écrit : > urpmi is THE killer feature of Mandrake above all others distributions. > Apt was a must, but for now, it seems urpmi is better (from my point of > view ...) Free software always need a friendly competition with at least two grea

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Scherer
On Friday 12 September 2003 13:02, vbnh fdgfd wrote: > Hi, > > Apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/) have the same fonctionality > as URPMI. > URPMI is a greet tool but why reinvent the wheel ? yes. so, can you tell to people who ported apt that urpmi was here before apt-rpm, and then, they s

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Teletchéa Stéphane
Le ven 12/09/2003 à 13:02, vbnh fdgfd a écrit : > Hi, > > Apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/) have the same fonctionality as > URPMI. > URPMI is a greet tool but why reinvent the wheel ? > > Mdk team is not big at this time, why "loose" time with a redundant software > devel ? > > And Rp

Re: [Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:02, vbnh fdgfd wrote: > Hi, > > Apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/) have the same fonctionality as > URPMI. > URPMI is a greet tool but why reinvent the wheel ? > > Mdk team is not big at this time, why "loose" time with a redundant software > devel ? > > And Rpm

[Cooker] urpmi / apt4rpm - not for 9.2

2003-09-12 Thread vbnh fdgfd
Hi, Apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/) have the same fonctionality as URPMI. URPMI is a greet tool but why reinvent the wheel ? Mdk team is not big at this time, why "loose" time with a redundant software devel ? And Rpmdrake could be changed to use apt-get, no ? thanks __