On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:40:30AM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 17:46, Bob Tanner wrote: > > Quoting Ben Lutgens (blutgens at sistina.com): > > > Bob's mirror seems to be broken an awful lot WRT to apt so I leave it > > > out of my sources.list. Stick with freshrpms it's more than adequate. this is why I like Grab for updating RH boxes. it's not as powerful as apt is in some ways (doing upgrades between major versions is a bit more painful); but it seems a lot less fragile in others, and more amenable to being beaten into compliance than apt. my main gripe with apt is that broken dependencies for *any* package, cause apt to throw up its hands and quit, rather than letting you say 'yes, I know there's something fscked up, do what I tell you anyway'. so no more rpm --nodeps installs (even when you know that the dependencies *are* actually satisfied, but can't convince rpm of it). the other really nice thing about grab is that it doesn't require anything to be done on the server side; you can just point it at an arbitrary repository of packages and it'll build its own databases (tho in the latest versions, it supports server-side dbases, just like apt has). http://www.runlevelzero.net/greg/grab/ Carl Soderstrom. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com