[K12OSN] rpm rebuild problem

Andy Rabagliati andyr at wizzy.com
Tue Mar 23 15:58:41 UTC 2004


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

> Dear Folks,
> 	this might be a bit off-topic, but here it goes: apt-get failed
> with bad rpm database, so i tried to run rpm --rebuilddb. here is what i
> get for my efforts:

If you want an apt-like tool for an RPM-based system like K12LTSP, I
thoroughly recommend yum.

I think apt is bolted on to rpm, and does not always work great.

yum on the other hand uses all the python stuff that rpm uses, and
is thus better integrated.

Cheers,   Andy!





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