Re: you or redhat
George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Joseph Vaughan wrote:
>
> > A serious difference between redhat 5.0's rpms and debian is that dselect tells you about
> > conflicts and dependencies *before* it connects to the FTP site (if that is the method
> > you're using) to download. rpm packages don't tell you about dependencies and conflicts
> > until *after* it's attempted to install. In my opinion, that makes the debian package
> > installer a lot easier to use.
> >
>
> The single biggest factor for me is the ease that remote servers can be
> kept upgraded simply and easilly. I can maintain servers far away from my
> physical location from inside the company firewall thanks to Debian's
> text-based package management. With RedHat, you are required to have an X
> display to use glint and the system is really designed for upgrade from a
> local CDROM of file archive. The only remote upgrade method is to manually
> FTP the packages to the system and run rpm on each one and hope there are
> no conflicts.
>
> Debian just makes SOOOOO much more sense for remote administration. RedHat
> is rather brain-dead in this regard and is designed with the local
> desktop, not the remote server, in mind.
>
I couldn't agree more. But the original question was from someone who wanted to know which of
the two to use. I'd say that Debian's dpkg is just a lot better than the various rpm package
managers (glint, xrpm) because of the fact that it takes care of all the package dependencies
and conflicts for you.
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