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

[Brad Fuller]

Brad Fuller wrote:

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> Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>>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.

perhaps Synaptic does an "update" when it starts up. That would account 
for it.

brad
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