to yum or apt

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:54 -0500, cajun wrote:
> Lokrin wrote:
> > Paul Howarth wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:25 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> >>
> >>> Richard Emberson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Haven't tried yumex (yet), just plain yum, but that does make sure 
> >>> everything is right wrt. dependencies etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes; in fact yum doesn't have provide options to break dependencies,
> >> unlike rpm itself.
> >>
> >>
> >>> Apart from that, the way I understand it, apt and yum now use exactly 
> >>> the same "repository" data, i.e. a yum-enabled distribution directory 
> >>> will also work with apt and vice versa. If it uses the current 
> >>> repository format, that is; there used to be different, incompatible 
> >>> formats, then both tools were updated to support a common standard.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I've not heard of any version of apt that can use repo data from any
> >> version of yum.
> >>
> >> Up2date though, can handle old and new yum metadata plus apt metadata.
> >> Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?
> >>
> >>
> >>> So you should be able to switch between yum and apt at your whim. Or 
> >>> up2date, which also uses the same distro data.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I believe there are more yum repos available than apt repos, but
> >> synaptic, which is an apt-only front end as far as I know, seems to the
> >> best-regarded package management GUI for now (though smart does have its
> >> advocates).
> >>
> >> So if you're familiar with and like synaptic, I'd be inclined to stick
> >> with it, but you might need to look a bit harder for repos (freshrpms is
> >> a good place to start, since they have mirrors in apt format of some
> >> other repos).
> >>
> >> Paul.
> > 
> > 
> > I just did an apt-get upgrade and it gave me a program called smart.  
> > I'm running it now.  The first thing it did was to start listing 
> > repositories I didn't have and asking me if I wanted to add them.  Then 
> > it gave me three items to upgrade.  I said yes and it started 
> > downloading all three at the same time with the status line changing as 
> > each one progressed.  I'm updating one long file that is going to take 
> > my 56k modem a couple of hours so I don't know how this will end, but 
> > I'll let you know when I find out.
> > 
> > So I now have yum, apt-get, up2date, synaptic and smart.
> > 
> > smart has no man or info listing.  Just type smart by itself and you get 
> > a help list.
> > 
> > Although the gui gives me an error.  How do I fix this?
> > 
> > # smart --gui
> > error: System has no support for gtk python interface
> > 
> > 
> Hi Lokrin,
> 
> Just did a google on that error and found this.  If you can look at this 
> page I think it will fix your problem:
> 
> http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2005-July/003405.html
> 
> 
> If not, let me know and I will copy it to you.

I'd check that you have the pygtk2 package installed first though.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>