[K12OSN] rpm rebuild problem

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Tue Mar 23 18:22:28 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 07:58, Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> 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.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This no longer true. Apt now uses the rpm libraries.


-Eric
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