Re: [SLUG] up2date with python problems

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 20:20:35 EST


> My solution to your problem:
>
> # rpm -Uvh \
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/valhalla/apt/apt-0.5.4cnc9-fr0.1.rh73.i386.rpm
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get install arts
>
> After this, you can always upgrade painlessly with dist-upgrade:
>
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Up2date has always irritated me. For more info, visit the apt4rpm website:
>
> http://apt4rpm.sf.net

Wahoo! Apt to the rescue! I also would advocate apt instead of up2date. Python (used by up2date) is still very much in a state of flux, and I don't like the state of my system depending on the relative compatibility of various python interpreters, add-ons, and the app that uses them. Apt mostly uses perl instead, and while perl is still changing as well, it is pretty mature at this point, and I've never had version cross-compatibility problems with perl, whereas I've had lots of those problems with python.

Levi



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