Re: Smart Package Manager

Matthew Miller <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:31:09 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
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On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 10:54:39PM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> Please just wget into the current directory the src.rpm.  I never liked 
> how older versions of apt-get would run "rpm -ivh" and scatter the 
> files all over /usr/src/redhat.  Or, if people want to have immediately 
> buildable rpms without moving anything around, maybe allow a user to 
> execute a Source RPM download and have it install into the ~/.rpmmacros 
> defined directory locations.

That's what apt does for me already....


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