[PlanetCCRMA] Re: OT - General FC2/RPM/apt question

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:53:30 +0100, Artem Baguinski <artm@v2.nl> wrote:
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> Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:15:31 -0800, Brad Fuller <brad@sonaural.com> wrote:
> >>  the synaptic app has a nice way of configuring the repositories. It's easy
> >> to configure.
> >>  I'd start there. I'm sure many here will reply with their favorite repos
> >> from p.c. to freshrpms.net
> >>
> >
> > I had not tried yum before. I managed to get samba and samba-swat
> > installed pretty painlessly. Apparently this just defaults to the same
> > servers that the redhat-update app goes to. Cool by me.
> 
> Doesn't simultaneous use of apt (for PlanetCCRMA) and yum (for the
> rest) lead to some confusion of dependencies? I'm very new to rpm
> based systems and I haven't figured yet what's exactly the devision of
> labour between rpm and apt/yum.
> 
Doesn't appear to. I loaded some Samba stuff yesterday using yum.
Checking in Synaptic this morning it all shows up so apparently they
use the same database.

- Mark