Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Dec 2006 18:19 UTC
"There has been a lot of discussion in the past few months about RPM - its present state, its future plans, and its leadership team. In particular, the Fedora Project has received numerous requests asking us, "what are you guys doing about RPM?" Here is our answer: The Fedora Project is leading the creation of a new community around RPM. One in which the leaders can come from Fedora, from Red Hat, from Novell, from Mandriva, or from anywhere. Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project."
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RE[2]: I had nasty problems
by sbenitezb on Thu 14th Dec 2006 19:40
in reply to "RE: I had nasty problems"
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"And as for dependency hell argument, stop already. Seriously. Stop. Deb packages have dependencies the same as rpm packages do. I mean, ever try install a package with just dpkg or whatever it is? Without a frontend, such as apt or yum or what have you, that handles dependencies automatically, then yes, you're going to have to resolve them by hand."
Mmmmm... there was no pun intended. I remember when you had to install packages with rpm, and then you had to manually chase all missing libraries from internet. There's a long time since I don't use Red Hat, so excuse me if I ask.
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In all my years of using rpm on various distros, including Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva, and Fedora I've never once had a problem with the rpm database being corrupted, aside from Red Hat 7 or so where they had the weird bug where you'd need to remove the .db003 files or whatever once in a while. This isn't to say that your rpm database couldn't get screwed up I suppose, but it probably wouldn't be anything a simple "rpm --rebuilddb" couldn't fix.
And as for dependency hell argument, stop already. Seriously. Stop. Deb packages have dependencies the same as rpm packages do. I mean, ever try install a package with just dpkg or whatever it is? Without a frontend, such as apt or yum or what have you, that handles dependencies automatically, then yes, you're going to have to resolve them by hand.