[ilugd] FC6 rpm command problem

2007-03-01 Thread Vaibhav Singh
hello members, i have a few questons to ask. 1. i have recently installed fc6 on my friends system.the problem arises when i m trying to add repositries or use any other rpm command containing a URL. i can download stuff using wget so i dont think the problem is with the terminal using a

Re: [ilugd] FC6 rpm command problem

2007-03-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Vaibhav Singh wrote: hello members, i have a few questons to ask. 1. i have recently installed fc6 on my friends system.the problem arises when i m trying to add repositries or use any other rpm command containing a URL. i can download stuff using wget so i dont think the problem is

Re: [ilugd] deb vs. rpm

2007-03-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Manoj, I am not sure what brought about this comparison so will refrain from being overly verbose.. Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, It might be instructive to compare package file formats on a purely technical level: http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/ This is a fairly

Re: [ilugd] deb vs. rpm

2007-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:36:14 +, Karanbir Singh said: 1) Data unpack-able by standard tools, meta-data accessible by standard tools, and ability to create a .deb with standard (non distribution specific) tools: .debs are just ar archives of tar-balls, and can be unpackaged, inspected,