discuss: Production use distribution? ---Re: [olug] Linux sys admin position

[Eric Penne]

Maybe more people will see the "light of day(bian)" if they get to use
apt-rpm.  Good to see you on the cutting edge now Chris.  Update
/etc/apt/source.list to say sid instead of stable and then apt-get
dist-upgrade to be on the really cutting edge.

Eric


--- CM Miller <cmmiller1973 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- "Jacobs, Robert A." <RAJACOBS at northropgrumman.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I realize that RH has done a lot of great work in
> > this area (up2date,
> > apt4rpm, 
> > etc.) but I still hear RH users complain about
> > dependency problems about
> > which I
> > never hear Debian users complain.  I'm not very
> > familiar with either one of
> > these
> > tools so that is all I can say on the subject...
> 
> Robert you should know first hand of this frustration,
> cause you tried to help me go from RH 7.3 to RH 8.0
> using apt-get dist-upgrade at the installfest.  
> 
> Well guess what, even though I've used up2date and
> apt-get to keep my packages current, 8.0 wouldn't
> install due to a bunch of rpm dependecies issues and
> then it was finding source packaged (.tgz) because I
> got tired of rpmhell and want to install apps. and get
> them up and running, not spending time hunting down
> rpms.  
> 
> I give up.  
> 
> I blew away RH and for fun I threw Mandrake 9.0 in and
> it installed without a flaw in less than 10 minutes.  
> 
> So then I blew away Mandrake and installed Debian. 
> 
> 
> 
> =====
> "People without goals get used by those who have goals" - Unknown
> 
> *****************************************
> GAIM ID:  cmmiller1973
> *****************************************
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
> http://sbc.yahoo.com
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com