RPM and DEB compatibility

[Florian Diesch]

Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:48 +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
>> "Rallias UberNerd" <robinstar1574 at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I recently took the time to make a really cool special self-made distro of
>> > Linux. However, I want to be able to use both RPM servers and DEB servers
>> > to update things with. I don't wish to use the one special piece of
>> > software allready out their to turn RPM's into DEB's, because then I can
>> > only use DEB servers to update easily, and I want both to have equal
>> > precidence (the higher version wins out). Am I being impossible or is
>> > their a way to do this?
>> 
>>  * Most likely quite a lot of the software will not work if you mix
>>    packages from different distributions
>>  * There's no way to resolve the dependencies using packages from
>>    different distributions
>>  * Comparing version numbers isn't that easy as most distributions apply
>>    their own patches and use their own system of package version
>>    numbering that often is different from the software version numbers
>
> If you really want the newest versions of everything, you could always
> try your hand at making a package manager that would just fetch the
> source code from the app-writer's respective websites, and
> compile/install them for you :)

The Gentoo people already did something like that.



   Florian
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