Re: apt-get with both rpm and deb

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:18:55PM +0100, belahcene wrote:
> Hi every body,
> I ve installed SL ( Scientific  Linux)  based on redhat.  It uses  
> apt-get for installing package, unfortunatly, it seems don't support deb.
> I create sources file like this :
> 
> deb 1 sarge main contrib
> deb http://172.19.130.161/sarge2 sarge main contrib
> deb http://172.19.130.161/sarge3 sarge main contrib
> rpm http://172.19.130.161/SL1   apt os
> 
> the iso sarge CD 1 is mounted on    http://172.19.130.161/sarge1
> the iso sarge CD 2 is mounted on    http://172.19.130.161/sarge2   and 
> so on ..
> 
> the iso SL CD1 is mounted on    http://172.19.130.161/SL1     .......
> 
> from  a debian machine I can install any package  from deb http://.....  
> and I have to comment the rpm lines
> from  a SL  machine I can install any package  from rpm  http://.....  
> and I have to comment the deb lines
> 
> Is there a possibility to do both, since  the apt-get install on SL does 
> the rpm !!!
> 
I think you should use different sources.list files for each distribution.
If you need to have both lists on the same machine, you could try
apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/debian.sources.list
apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/redhat.sources.list