Dude! RH 5.x is not even in the same _game_ as RHEL 5.x. You're comparing kernel 1.x to kernel 2.6.x. Different animal.<br><br>The quantity of info contained by a particular package is a function of the needs of that package. RPM's support pre and post install and removal scripts. I am quite certain that debs provide similar capabilities.<br>
<br>Yum and apt are not "front ends" for their respective package formats. They function as tools to locate and acquire new packages and all known dependencies for installation into a system. The support finding info about the found packages and what is needed to install or remove them.<br>
<br>As always, working with poor quality repos will cause issues in dependencies. That is not a function of the package management tool but of the developers who are using libs from a broken or unsupported tree. Most stuff located on <a href="http://rpmfind.net">rpmfind.net</a> is a crapshoot for system reliability. Most stuff on rpmfusion is just fine. <a href="http://jpackage.org">jpackage.org</a> is also usually a decent source (java stuff is notorious for version weirdness). Any deb user who access a bad repo will have mountains of issues. Any deb user who changes their version midstream will also have issues. For that matter, a fedora user who pokes at their repo configs and changes version numbers manually is really gonna have a bad day!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>RPM and dpkg are roughly anaglous to each other. They more or less work at the individual package level. Yum and APT are front ends for rpm and dpkg, respectively.</p>
<p>However, as I understand the underlying formats, dpkg pkgs hold more info in them, while yum and other rpm front ends attempt to piece that info together for themselves. I could be wrong, I haven't really looked @ rpm since RH 5.w (not RHEL 5.2).</p>
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</div><div class="gmail_quote">On May 25, 2011 9:47 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com" target="_blank">damon@damtek.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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