[PlanetCCRMA] Re: OT - General FC2/RPM/apt question

[Brad Fuller]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:53:30 +0100, Artem Baguinski <artm at v2.nl> wrote:
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>>Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> writes:
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>>>On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:15:31 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
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>>>> the synaptic app has a nice way of configuring the repositories. It's easy
>>>>to configure.
>>>> I'd start there. I'm sure many here will reply with their favorite repos
>>>>from p.c. to freshrpms.net
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>>>I had not tried yum before. I managed to get samba and samba-swat
>>>installed pretty painlessly. Apparently this just defaults to the same
>>>servers that the redhat-update app goes to. Cool by me.
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>>Doesn't simultaneous use of apt (for PlanetCCRMA) and yum (for the
>>rest) lead to some confusion of dependencies? I'm very new to rpm
>>based systems and I haven't figured yet what's exactly the devision of
>>labour between rpm and apt/yum.
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>Doesn't appear to. I loaded some Samba stuff yesterday using yum.
>Checking in Synaptic this morning it all shows up so apparently they
>use the same database.
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Hmmm... I always thought that I had to do an update for apt or yum to 
update the their respective dBs -- as in: when I use yum, I "yum update" 
first so that if I previously used apt-get I would get the latest RPM 
updates from the apt-get install.

brad


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