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Re: apt-rpm article -- the features we don't have



Got it -- a bit more than just parsing out... but suprisingly little
(other than someone's time, which is always worth a great deal...)


Andrew Pollock <debian-lists@andrew.net.au> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:50:29PM -0800, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>> 
>
> [snip]
>
>> 
>> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>
> [snip]
>
>> >
>> > 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 ?
>
> But that won't satisfy any dependencies that the package you're installing
> has.
>  
>> > Similarly, to check the build depends of a source package file:
>> >   apt-get build-dep apt-listchanges-1.49-11104cl.src.rpm
>> 
>> similarly...?
>
> See above.
>  
> regards
>
> Andrew
>

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