[lug] a bit tired of updates

Ralf Mattes rm at ns.aura.de
Wed Oct 27 08:45:14 MDT 1999


On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Bob C. Ruddy wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> ->That is correct.  In general I prefer the Debian package management to Red
> ->Hat's.  I think there are more available packages in .rpm format though so
> ->that becomes a bit of a problem.
> 
> That is true but there is a program that will convert the rpm to a debian
> package file. It works really well to.

Hmm, it'll convert the rpm to .deb but it can't create the sophisticated
dependency information required for a 'real' Debian packet. 

 Ralf

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