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#257
Originally Posted by next5 View Post
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Dpkg, as every other Debian tools use completely idiotic syntax with geeky commands. Especially dpkg-query are wonderfull.
Good find that link:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Package_managers
Helpfull to many, I am sure, when transition to Meego from Maemo happens in the future.
It is missing zypper equivalences to APT and YUM though.


I several years ago made same kind of table for myself, when switching between Fedora and Debian systems back and forth. I was thinking of exporting it here in some later time when I have time to edit it, but there it is already now then. It was missing couple of items both in RPM/YUM and DPKG/APT parts, which I added.

Yes, I find it also little tiresome to remember all the different dpkg-* and apt-* commands, but of course there is also yum, yumdownloader, rpm, rpmbuild and debuginfo-install.
(Although debuginfo-install is done by ABRT nowadays in Fedora to send verbose bug reports with debugging information if it cannot heuristically find out it is a known bug already, stripping sensitive information from the bug reports and does all this automatically just asking in the end before sending for confirmation and what user was doing when the crash occured.)

I also think there is both good political/policy/unity (LSB) and technical reasons to RPM over DEB.
The most disturbing thing for me is that de facto policy do not require to have embedded GPG signatures in deb-packages and that debsigs-programs are not in use by default (/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg)

Last edited by zimon; 2010-04-15 at 22:02. Reason: zypper not in the table, debuginfo-install (and ABRT) is also important in rpm system for developers