Distro discusion

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
	Yes, this is true, but the concept is slightly different. rpmfind
will do just that, find an RPM. You really don't know who built it, or
even whether it will work at all. Sometimes the config files are in odd
places, and older libraries are needed. Some want to downgrade libraries
that should never be downgraded, such as the slang or glibc
libraries. More annoying, though, is when it pops up with a SuSE
rpm. Since the SuSE linux distro uses different package names, odds are
that dependencies will not be met with these on non-SuSE systems.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> 
> For those who would like to know, Redhat offers a similar utility to
> Debian's update. Redhat calls it rpmfind. You specify a word on the command
> line and rpmfind wills earch the database for it, if it finds, it tells you
> allthe dependences, you just hit "download all" option.