[plug] RH9 apt sources.list

[Shayne O'Neill]

does red hat have an analog to dpkg --install

I know theres rpm --install but dpkg still nominally is not satanic about
dependancies
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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Anne Busby wrote:
> | Do UWA have RedHat 9
>
> No.
>
> | Any one know how to 'translate' a directory hierachy
> | to a sources.list entry ?
>
> "man sources.list" is the best advice I can give you.  It describes
> how it works on a Debian system; I've no idea how it works on
> RPM-based systems, but the man page probably will.
>
> FWIW, here is a quick example of how Debian's apt does it; maybe it'll
> be of some use.
>
> 	deb file:/archive/mirrors/debian sarge main contrib non-free
>
> This says, look in
> /archive/mirrors/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/
> /archive/mirrors/debian/dists/sarge/contrib/binary-i386/ and
> /archive/mirrors/debian/dists/sarge/non-free/binary-i386/ for a file
> called Packages, and use that as a list of packages.  That file will
> in turn contain paths for where each package can be found, given
> relative to /archive/mirrors/debian.
>
> Cameron.
>
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