Why I use Debian. Was Re: [plug] Mandrake - printing

[Colin Muller]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:

> "AutoRPM is a program that can do any combination of the following: mirror
> RPMs from an FTP site, keep installed RPMs consistent with an FTP site
> or local directory, and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or network of
> systems consis- tent."
> 
> This is not what APT does that I want to do with RPMs.
> I'll use Christians term for it: "resolving cascading dependencies", and
> for Barbara's sake, yes, dealing with conflicts is also essential.

I haven't had a close look, but I can't imagine it would require an
all-nighter to tell autorpm.pl to use urpmi as its installer instead of
/bin/rpm - that would give you pretty much the functionality you want
(auto-update by comparison with a remote ftp directory, including
detection and auto-install of dependencies).

Colin

> > and urpmi:
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/urpmi.html
> 
> Aha! Mandrake to the rescue. This seems like a good start, though I get
> the impression from the webpage that it's not quite ready yet. Presumably
> it will work on the Redhat systems I may have to administer, or if it
> doesn't, Redhat will make sure it does.
> 
> -Greg