A.J. Rossini wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but none of this sounds like > functionality that a bit of parsing out to other programs can't > solve, given that I do it locally for the systems in my lab. > > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes: > > > Interesting article on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/60650/ (subscription > > required) In summary, apparently apt-rpm users can now do some things > > with apt that we cannot. > > > > To install a package directly, with apt downloading any necessary > > dependencies: > > apt-get install rpmver-2.0-13498cl.i386.rpm > > couldn't this just refer to dpkg --install ? dpkg does not download deps of the package. At best with dpkg and our apt it is a three step process. > > Similarly, to check the build depends of a source package file: > > apt-get build-dep apt-listchanges-1.49-11104cl.src.rpm > > similarly...? Nope, this is impossible to do with our apt unless you set up a repository and add your sources to it. Of course dpkg-checkbuildeps can be used if you unpack the source. -- see shy jo
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