Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 08:44:49 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> > I have some questions about how to do certain maintenance tasks in
> > Debian that I do routinely in gentoo.
> >
> > eix-sync
> > to synchronizes the local repo with the online one
<snip>
> > Is there a decent manual describing basic maintenance tasks like this?
> apt-get(8) and apt-cache(8).
"The Debian System, Concepts and Techniques" by Martin Krafft, 
(http://debiansystem.info/) to be a pretty good reference to how things 
are organized in Debian.  Probably the most comprehensive writeup on 
Debian package management that I've seen, and some good sections on 
system admin as well. Might be a little dated though (2005) - things 
have changed a bit.

You might want to browse through http://www.debian.org/doc/books

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