Re: Live Upgrade for Linux

From: Daniel Wittenberg (daniel-wittenberg@uiowa.edu)
Date: 04/02/03

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    From: Daniel Wittenberg <daniel-wittenberg@uiowa.edu>
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Date: 01 Apr 2003 16:32:11 -0600

    On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:29, J C Lawrence wrote:
    > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:33:04 -0600
    > Dan Freed <dfreed@epicsystems.com> wrote:
    >
    > > What about apt-get for rpms?
    >
    > RPM doesn't encode sufficient dependency data to support the sort of
    > automatic dependency and conflict resolution that make Debian so
    > attractive, and arguably a pkg mgmt system should have

    But apt-get (or apt-rpm) works great with RPM. There are things I like
    about rpm and about apt, so with apt-rpm you get the best of both
    worlds.

    Dan

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