[NTLUG:Discuss] looking for rpm tool for RH

[krannen@gte.net]

R P Herrold wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 krannen at gte.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>I'm looking for a nice rpm management tool for RH machines, it must be 
>>>>non-X.
>>>>
> 
>>>>Surely such a thing exists?
>>>>
> 
> autorpm
>    (Kirk Bauer - http://www.kaybee.org)
> apt-rpm
>    (Connectiva -- http://www.connectiva.br)
> openup
>     (http://openup.colug.net/)
> 
> each come to mind -- each GPL


Thanks!  I'll check them out.  FWIW, the apt-rpm link didn't resolve, but a 
search got me http://distro.conectiva.com/projetos/42.


> 
> 
>>Yeh, and yast is good enough to see those dependencies and
>>ask you if you want to autoinstall them too.
>>
> 
> YaST != GPL    ==> not acceptible


Umm, I don't agree, but I realize it's a personal thing.  One of the reasons I 
like the SuSE distro is that I think they have a nice balance between OSS and 
Commercial (which I do believe has a place no matter what RMS thinks. :-)

Thanks again for the pointers!
Kevin