[users] Metadata problems

Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) nils at lemonbit.nl
Sat Dec 15 22:55:47 CET 2007


Maulvi Bakar wrote:

> On Dec 15, 2007 11:33 PM, Quien Sabe <quien-sabe at metaorg.com> wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> >
> >
> > PS I am not a fan of yum and am not interested in debugging yum  
> problems.
> >
> >
> What is your preferred tool in place of yum then. Sorry I am an
> inquiring mind.
>
> Well, the l33t's choice here seems to be 'Apt'. I've used Apt, but  
> on my ubuntu laptop.  I've never tried Apt on Rpm-based distro.
>
> I wonder if anyone would care to elaborate their experience and  
> maybe enlighten us and possibly convert us too..

I hear apt doesn't handle multilib very well (if at all). Is that  
true? Because in that case apt is of no use to me either. And I like  
going with the 'native' package manager (which is yum in my case  
(CentOS)). I am surprised that I only see this behavior with RPMforge  
though.

Nils Breunese.
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