RPM and DEB compatibility

[Sam Varshavchik]

Rallias UberNerd writes:

> I recently took the time to make a really cool special self-made distro of
> Linux. However, I want to be able to use both RPM servers and DEB servers
> to update things with. I don't wish to use the one special piece of
> software allready out their to turn RPM's into DEB's, because then I can
> only use DEB servers to update easily, and I want both to have equal
> precidence (the higher version wins out). Am I being impossible or is
> their a way to do this?
> 
> Basically, I am wanting to have the shell determine the version of the
> software installed and use the newer version, I suppose. I am currently
> using BASH, but have SH, KSH, and CSH installed on my system.

RPMs and DEBs are fundamentally incompatible. There are various tools which 
convert an existing package from one format to another. However, even the 
best tools cannot do anything if a package has a dependency on some system 
library of a different version, and I know of no tool to directly install 
packages of either format, seemlessly, on the host server, and resolve 
dependencies from hybrid package sources.



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