apt vs yum

Justin Georgeson jgeorgeson at lopht.net
Wed Oct 15 20:29:39 UTC 2003


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2003 13:12, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> 
>>what dirty tricks? APT should do nothing more than search
>>repositories for the specified package, check dependencies, download
>>candidates, and call rpm.
> 
> 
> It used to call rpm with --force and --nodeps.  Hopefully it doesn't do 
> that anymore.
> 

I think it is still doing something like that then, as the RawHide RPMs 
aren't necessarily signed, and I don't think I've seen it complain about 
that.





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