APT/RPM "Compatibility"

[Phil Bull]

Hi Brent,

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 21:06 -0500, Brent Saner wrote:
> One of the guys in my LUG put this together and I thought you guys
> might get a kick out of it; find some place for it in the wiki for
> instance. Attached is the conversation we had off-list, which grants
> his permission to reproduce it. 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: JP Vossen <jp at jpsdomain.org>
> Date: Nov 28, 2007 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] APT and RPM Packager Lookup Tables 
> To: Brent Saner <brent.saner at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Brent Saner wrote:
> > i'd give a shout to the ubuntu-docs mailing list about this if i
> were you! 
> (snip)
> 
> 
> I'm not on that list, but feel free to pass this along.  I'm not 100%
> sure 100% of it is correct, but...
> 
> I seem to have it marked as "Copyright © 1995-2007, JP Vossen. All
> rights reserved" which is what my home-grown trivial CMS does, but I
> hereby grant anyone permission to use or reproduce any/all of the
> material from http://www.jpsdomain.org/linux/apt.html for any purpose
> whatsoever.

Thanks! It looks like the most appropriate place for much of this would
be in one of the "Switching to Ubuntu" pages [1]. There's already a
table about packaging there, but I'll have a go at merging some of the
material later on today.

I'll also try to add the information on "Apt Related Tools" somewhere
too, maybe in the format of a "quick reference".

Please send our thanks to the original author.

Thanks again,

Phil

[1] -
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromLinux/RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAndFedora

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