[nzlug] CentOS and the "joys" of rpm based systems

[Cliff Pratt]

Daniel Lawson wrote:
> 
>> No one knows of an apt-get which will work from within CentOS? (I've
>> always had issues with yum)
>>   
> 
> http://apt-rpm.org/
> 
> I'm not meaning to be picky or anything here, but the above URL is 
> readily available with a quick google search and some inference from the 
> results. (eg, pages that talk about apt-rpm)
> 
> The same google search also fields a result that points out that apt 
> doesn't work with multilib systems (so any 64-bit systems will break, I 
> guess, as they're all multilib based), and one suggested using 
> http://labix.org/smart instead.  ( 
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-February/060562.html )
> 
yum isn't that bad. No worse than apt/dpkg.

Cheers,

Cliff