[ale] Package manager holy war!

[Jim]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 19:47 -0500, Jim wrote:
>> I don't want them to do that.  yum localinstall is too valuable.  I have
>> yet to see an apt-get command that will do the same.  I prefer apt for
>> most things, if it would just let me install a .deb file and figure out
>> the dependencies...
>
> # dpkg -i local.deb
> # apt-get -f install
>
> Should do the trick, if I am reading you right.  Debian's package 
> management system puts packages in a number of states and is quite 
> complex, but I have used that above to resolve dependencies for 
> locally managed packages in the past, as I recall.
Hm looks interesting.  I'll have to give it a try.  So you are saying 
that the dpkg -i will fail but leave the install in an incomplete state 
and that apt-get -f install will go off and satisfy the dependencies and 
complete the install? 

That's a keeper.

Thanks,
Jim.