Red Hat SE and packages

[Teddy Mills]

If I manage a system by using pre-packaged RPMs via RPM or apt-get
my experience has been eventually the system ends up in a Gordian Knot
and not easy to manage the more you customize that system.
And you know how Alexander fixed that.  The Sword of Justice!



Dan Gennidakis wrote:

> The preferred method for a registered/supported Red Hat ES system is 
> to either use RPM at the command line as you do with apt or use Red 
> Hat Update - up2date either in X or the command line using the --nox 
> option. I have rarely encountered problems updating systems this way 
> and yes I use both Red Hat and Debian based systems. It is just a 
> matter of getting familiar with the features/options of rpm as you are 
> familiar with apt-get. I don't think Red Hat will support using apt on 
> ES systems with non-official Red Hat packages.
>  
> */Teddy Mills <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org>/* wrote:
>
>
>     Using RPMS packages consistently can be a problem.
>     When RPMS packages start tripping over each other.
>     If possible, use source.tars.
>
>
>     Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>     >On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:32:07AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >>I have recently become an administrator of a Red Hat Enterprise
>     Linux ES
>     >>machine, and I am running into challenges all over the place. I
>     run a
>     >>number of Debian machines, and so I am used to the ease and
>     convenience
>     >>of apt. Is there some equivalent for Red Hat, or do I have to
>     get RPMs
>     >>manually? I used KRUD for a year, so the Red Hat way is not totally
>     >>foreign, but I went to Debian for a reason. Thanks.
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     >Well some people install the port of apt-get on RedHat to fix exactly
>     >that problem. No idea how we ll it works, since apt-get still
>     depends on
>     >the quality of the dependency definitions to help it figure out what
>     >needs installing.
>     >
>     >Lennart Sorensen
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