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Are RPMs structurally quite different from DEBs? Or was the problem that RPM tooling was buggy?
by ahepp 4y ago
Are RPMs structurally quite different from DEBs? Or was the problem that RPM tooling was buggy?
- petepete 4y agoNot really, rpm and dpkg are similar and both solid - and have been for years. Not sure but what instability the parent post is referring to but SuSE V10 came out in 2006 - I suspect the problems have been ironed out.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoQuite possibly, but I've also had some issues with the various kernel versions (e.g. "unbreakable") in Oracle Linux v7. I've had the occasional issue with broken dependencies with dpkg, but they've always seemed much easier to resolve and generally involved just uninstalling the broken package.