[LUNI] Testers wanted: apt on Red Hat Linux 7.1

[Scott Thomason]

The availability of packages included in the standard distro (like ssh) has since been overcome, but, like Debian, the size of the distro has grown to accomodate it. And they now have an installer (up2date) that "wraps" RPM and does the dependency checking. These things should no longer be an issue for RH.
---scott

>>> maney at pobox.com 12/02/01 11:53AM >>>
At this point in time, it's been some years, so most of it is secondhand.  I
didn't like the lack of a package manager - the user-interface half of it,
as I discussed last time.  From all I hear, installing an RPM that needs
some other packages that you don't happen to have on board already is still
a very manual process.  There seems to be a general tendency for things that
I couldn't live without to exist only as "contrib" packages (which has a
very different meaning for Red Hat - those are the ones that come from Joe
Random Hacker and have no support or QA, yes?).  My last experience was
helping a friend get ssh installed - it wasn't in the official release,
which was shocking.  (this was recent enough that Debian had had OpenSSH in
main for long enough that I couldn't imagine living without it, but I'm just
not sure when exactly it was)


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