Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: re: installation

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:41, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:08, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:50, syan wrote:
> >
> >  can you explain how apt-get works?
>
> In short: Like a charm. ;-)
>
> > There are repositories of packages - mostly  at places like
> > ftp.au.debian.org. Firstly you set your apt-config to look at the
> > repositories you want, and the standard of stability or excitement you
> > want ie stable, testing, unstable.
>
> For GnuMed you need at least testing.
> (The packages I builded have versioned build depends and will ask for the
>  right dependencies.)
>
> > There are open-source versions of apt for other flavours of Linux, but
> > the package lists aren't there, and you still have to wade through
> > dependency hell to get apt installed in the first place.
>
> While I have not tested apt for RPM (which exists and I have learned that
> porters implemented some kind features which the original apt-get does not
> (yet) have) I have to admit that I have some problems with this aproach:
> There are many different distributions which deliver RPMs which follow
> different policies to place certain files or to configure packages.  It
> might lead to problems when you mix those RPMs intended for different
> distributions. So I would double check before I would blindly install
> random RPMs via an automatic installer.  Complying to a strict policy is
> one of the main advantages of official Debian packages.
>
> Kind regards
>
>            Andreas.
>
the different distributions have their own apt repositories but they just 
don't have the number of packages of debian.
liz

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