Re: Yum/Apt for SuSE?

From: Ruel Smith (NoWay_at_NoWhere.com)
Date: 04/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:44:46 -0500

On Saturday April 03, 2004 2:10 pm, Leendert Meyer vomitted:

>> What I was inquiring about was using YaST to upgrade via apt sources.
>
> A YaST repository and an apt repository can both point to the same rpms.
> This is done with the apt repository of SuSE Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, and 9.0
> at ftp.gwdg.de. In the apt repository, symlinks point to rpms of YaST
> repositories.
>
> But YaST can only use a YaST repository, and apt can only use an apt
> repository.

Hey, I can hope can't I? I really wish SuSE would dump their current system
in favor of using apt and integrate it into YaST.
 
>> You have to watch upgrading everything via apt. I've run into troubles
>> with the new KDE being released.
>
> Fortunaly apt and synaptic show what they are planning to do right before
> the actual update, so one can always abort the upgrade process safely,
> before anything is done. It is always smart to check at this point to see
> that the right packages are installed or removed.

What happened to me was a broken K3b that I couldn't fix because the
repository, in this case Packman, took down the file in favor of a new file
that required KDE 3.2.1, but I'm running KDE 3.1.4 and don't want to
upgrade to the newer KDE. So, I tried going back to the original SuSE
version via YaST, but now YaST wanted to do a ton of stuff to fix
dependencies that were totally fictitious. Apparently, after running apt
Synaptic, YaST got confused. My only hope was to wipe and reinstall SuSE 9.
Thank goodness it only takes about an hour and a half... K3b now works
well, except that it's the broken SuSE version. I can burn mp3 disks on my
Windows machine with Nero for now.

SuSE 9.1 will be here soon and I'll get everything installed and upgraded to
non-broken version really soon. 

-- 
Big Daddy Ruel Smith
SuSE Linux 9

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