http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067056799.html
Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux project ... made two very important announcements: the porting of Red Hat's Anaconda installer tool to Debian, and a modification of Debian's APT package tool which will allow it to use both RedHat and Debian packages.
-Andy
On Saturday 25 October 2003 13:06, Andy Green wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067056799.html
Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux project ... made two very important announcements: the porting of Red Hat's Anaconda installer tool to Debian, and a modification of Debian's APT package tool which will allow it to use both RedHat and Debian packages.
-Andy
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Nice ;) maybe rpm should be modified to to allow us use debian packages :) ? <no_flames_please> btw: does rpm stil hang with large rpm -Uhv / -ihv and do we have still to killall -9 rpm; rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm --rebuilddb; ... ? AFIK rpm in rh8 was not able to relocate packages at all and hangs sometimes, in rh9 just hangs... </no_flames_please>
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:47:39 +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
AFIK rpm in rh8 was not able to relocate packages at all and
Whether a package is relocatable depends on whether it was made relocatable. Many packages from independent packagers are flagged reloctable, but are not really relocatable actually. Often they access files via hardcoded non-relocated paths or depend on files in non-relocated locations.
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On Tuesday 28 October 2003 09:05, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:47:39 +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
AFIK rpm in rh8 was not able to relocate packages at all and
Whether a package is relocatable depends on whether it was made relocatable. Many packages from independent packagers are flagged reloctable, but are not really relocatable actually. Often they access files via hardcoded non-relocated paths or depend on files in non-relocated locations.
I mean with relocatable packages - check kylix rpms and release notes if you don't belive me ;) I 'installed' it and it 'relocated' all files to my '/' dir :) This was fixed in rh9.
On Monday 27 October 2003 10:47 pm, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
btw: does rpm stil hang with large rpm -Uhv / -ihv and do we have still to killall -9 rpm; rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm --rebuilddb; ... ?
rpm died on me yesterday and I had to go through this procedure, I am using rpm version rpm-4.2.1-0.30. So yes, rpm is still broken. I should not that this occured after trying to install hwdata with up2date, and up2date segfaulted, which in turn caused rpm to crap out. So, rpm definately has some problems, it certainly does not clean itself up properly when interrupted.
You know something that stands out as clearly incorrect about this article is "Progeny may have provided the catalyst needed to create a distribution of unprecedented quality; it is now up to open source software developers to follow through."
Give credit where credit is due. Red Hat created the catalyst by releasing anaconda and creating Fedora.
Progeny/Debian are just recognizing that anaconda is an excellent installer and that they have sorely needed this with there distribution for some time.
-chris
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:06, Andy Green wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067056799.html
Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux project ... made two very important announcements: the porting of Red Hat's Anaconda installer tool to Debian, and a modification of Debian's APT package tool which will allow it to use both RedHat and Debian packages.
-Andy
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:47:39AM +0200, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
Nice ;) maybe rpm should be modified to to allow us use debian packages :) ?
<no_flames_please> btw: does rpm stil hang with large rpm -Uhv / -ihv and do we have still to killall -9 rpm; rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*; rpm --rebuilddb; ... ? AFIK rpm in rh8 was not able to relocate packages at all and hangs sometimes, in rh9 just hangs... </no_flames_please>
There will be only security fixes for RH 9 and 8.0.
You have to download latest stable package from ftp.rpm.org.
There is no reason to do --rebuilddb, as database is not damaged. The problem is in futexes.