[plug] Red Hat package management

[John Clayton]

Red Hat has a package management system. It has  package installation, 
uninstallation and dependancy checking that looks in a database to see what 
packages you have installed. Everything else you have to do yourself. Its 
all command line and there are black candles made especially for the purpose 
of keeping evil spirits away while you install uninstall upgrade and freshen 
your packages.

Abandon Hope All Yee Who Enter The Domain Of RPM.

Those things like apt dselect and all those others that recursively check 
dependancies and get all the bits and pieces that you need without asking 
any hard questions take all the fun out of life (-: and would more 
accurately be called package and dependancy management systems.

With RPM you get to manage the dependancies as you see fit and get the 
opportunity to have all the fun that ensues when you select the nodeps 
option. :-)

>From: Derek Fountain <derekfountain at yahoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: [plug] Red Hat package management
>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:49:57 +0800
>
>Any RHL9 users on the list? I've just installed a copy and am having 
>trouble
>understanding the package management system, or lack of one. The supplied
>redhat-config-packages isn't fine grained and doesn't have the ability to
>search, or tell me what's installed such that I can remove stuff easily.
>
>I want to install the tcl/tk packages, plus incr tcl. There doesn't seem to 
>be
>a tool which allows me to point and click on those and install them for me.
>Even trying to get xchat installed with a CLI rpm command presented a list 
>of
>dependencies, and short of sifting through the CDs trying to find the
>packages required (and all their dependencies) I can't see a way of getting
>the tools I need installed.
>
>I get the impression I'm missing something. I asked on the surprisingly
>unhelpful #RedHat channel on freenode and was basically told that people
>install apt-get for rpm. Is that really the only solution? What do RHL 
>users
>on this list do to get packages quickly and easily installed?
>

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