[Infrastructures] ISConf 4 vs. RPM-based LInux distro

[Tim Nelson]

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:40:18 +1100 (EST)
From: Tim Nelson <tim.nelson@webalive.biz>
To: Steve Traugott <stevegt@TerraLuna.Org>
Subject: Re: [Infrastructures] ISConf 4 vs. RPM-based LInux distro

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Steve Traugott wrote:

> I moved to Debian from Redhat in large part because the Debian tools
> make these things possible.  Last time I looked (it's been a while),
> yum didn't have a good dryrun mode, or something, and <flamebait> like
> most Redhat-related stuff is just not as well suited to automation
> </flamebait>, and then you've got rpm's way of littering .rpmsave
> files everywhere rather than using anything like debconf, so config
> files aren't as easy to deal with either.  I still think rpm-based
> distros could overcome this, it's just going to take more work.

 	Just for the record, I found yum fairly inflexible, but I'm using 
Redhat.  up2date can actually be used with yum repos, so you can do it that way 
if you try.

 	:)

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