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URPMI For Fedora Core 2

Posted by Hemos on from the cross-platform-grail dept.

Jaroslaw Zachwieja writes "Stefan van der Eijk, the autor of Slbd - automated tool to rebuild distributions to different architectures/processors in a sanitized environment, has published set of RPMS of URPMI for Fedora Core 2. The only usage difference is that it uses hdlist instead of compressed hdlist.cz known from Mandrake. Are we one step further towards Cross-distro RPMS?"

2 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. URPMI does depndancy resolution by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Informative

    URPMI can do pretty much everything apt can do. It is really no better or worse. Apt has more conveient commands for some things, URPMI does for others.

    Same shit, different stick really.

  2. Re:apt by rsd · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no apt vs rpm as there is no urpmi vs dkpg. it is like comparing a beer (liquid) with a beer can.

    APT is a great management tool. But it is not a packaging format/tool.

    APT already works with Debian, debian dkpg based distros and some RPM based distros as:
    - Conectiva (they ported to rpm and support apt use)
    - Mandrake (at least for the cooker)
    - Redhat and Suse (thru 3rd party prepared mirrors)

    An advantage of URPMI over APT is that URPMI can do small updates instead of taking the
    whole package list and putting it in a big "rpm -Uvh" command line.