Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:17:48 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'? Message-ID: <20060117131553.B28752@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <1137487746.12144.34.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> <EF55CD79-4C0D-431D-8AAF-51A0BD4AA9FA@u.washington.edu> <1137487746.12144.34.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Robert Slade wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: >> >>> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>>> As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to >>>> install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do >>>> as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and >>>> downloading them ... >>>> baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? >>>> thanks ... >>>> ---- >>>> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http:// >>>> www.hub.org) >>>> Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy >>>> ICQ: 7615664 >>>> >>> look at the end of rpm man page, there is a section INSTALL AND >>> UPGRADE OPTIONS. >>> Concerning other tools, the poor experience I have with RH showed >>> me that rpm is a great tool. Maybe you may try yum, which, iirc, is >>> a GUI for rpm. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Gregory >> >> Actually yum's a means for updating that's meant to replace the >> Redhat Network Tool or whatever it was called back in RH9.0 and RHE, >> which comes as primarily a command line tool I thought. As far as I >> know is only available for Fedora-a product primarily made for >> desktop users made by Redhat. >> -Garrett > > To clear up a couple of points: YUM is a Redhat tool but is a command > line one. It works on all Redhat derived systems not just Fedora. BTW > Fedora is not made by Redhat but is sponsored by them - they use it as a > test platform. > > What I don't understand why the OP is installing Linux Apachie2 from > rpms when there is a perfectly good port for BSD which handles the > dependencies and the different locations of files, scripts etc. One word: PHPlib I have a client that has a Linux license for PHPlib, and from talking to the PHPlib folk, they won't convert the license to a FreeBSD one ... rather then send the client off to a Linux hosting company, I'm *trying* to accommodate their requirement on a FreeBSD platform ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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