Re: Red Hat Package Manager debianized

To: clameter@waterf.org (Christoph Lameter)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org (debian mailing list)
Subject: Re: Red Hat Package Manager debianized
From: Hamish Moffatt <moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 18:27:33 +1100 (EST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199610280727.SAA03629@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961026232445.12193A-100000@waterf.org> from "Christoph Lameter" at Oct 26, 96 11:27:08 pm

> Redhat. So I sought for a way to install RedHat packages under Debian and
> debianized the Red Hat Package manager rpm. I was able to install gated

> Installing this package means that you have two competing package managers
> that know nothing about each other on your system!

Since Redhat now has dependencies, perhaps it would be nice if dpkg
or some other Debian-specific program were to be able to install
RPMs but maintain Debian packaging information etc. Although this
would discourage people from writing Debian-specific packages perhaps.


hamish

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