Re: [Pan-users] Upgrading to Pan v0.12.0 on Red Hat Linux 7.1 issues

[Christopher S Horler]

RedHat has up2date which might be compared with apt-get, I don't know if itcan 
be set up for rawhide packages or not.

On Saturday 22 Jun 2002 5:17 pm, Toby Inkster wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2002 01:51:00 +1200
>
> mdew <address@hidden> wrote:
> | only on Ximian supported platforms... i laugh at people who have alot
> | dependancy problems installing any package including pan/pan-cvs, its
> | non-exisistant on debian :) no more --force --nodeps.
>
> RPM, as a packaging format has no significant advantages or disadvantages
> over DEB (except that RPMs are in general more widely available and that
> RPM has been adopted as the standard packaging format for the LSB).
>
> As far as the packiaging software is concerned, of course "apt-get" is more
> advanced than "rpm"... but you shouldn't try to compare them. Instead
> compare "dpkg" with "rpm" and you'll see that "rpm" compares favourably.
>
> Compare "apt-get" with "apt-rpm" or Mandrake's "urpmi" and you'll see that
> RPM is not as behind as a lot of people claim.