On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:29 AM Dridi Boukelmoune
<dridi.boukelmoune(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:39 PM Dishant Pandya <drpdishant(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its ok to have something that builds deb packages on Fedora, but in my opinion RPM
is far more better then debian packages. Also the Dnf and yum package manager on Fedora
are far more advanced than apt on Ubuntu and other Debian Based system.
> I have been using fedora for over 2 years now and I have never faced the package
installation issues that I faced with apt and dpkg, for whatever unknown reasons, may be
some corruption of package file, installation state Ubuntu's package manager gets
erroneous to an unrecoverable state, and I being a normal desktop user wasn't able to
restore the state, and had to reinstall the whole OS from scratch. dpkg/apt is good when
it works, but when it breaks its unrecoverable. RPM , dnf/yum are more reliable.
That poor joke of mine keeps hitting home :)
Fedora remains an RPM-based system using DNF. What this change was
about was really to allow using apt with deb packages. It makes it easier to
pull more tools from the dpkg ecosystem like mock equivalent sbuild.
Nothing to worry about.
Cheers,
Dridi
Simply put, "no". Debian and Ubuntu ".deb" packages too often
don't
follow the File System Hierarchy, they may have different layouts and
package naming capitalization schemes for matching Fedora packagers
like "PyYAML", they may have overlapping pre-set uids and mismatched
group name conventions, etc., etc, and the grub intigration for new
kernels is likely to be a nightmare. It would be a full-time job for
several competent engineers to do that kind of package impedance
matching.
Just..... no.aot abd deb inside a "podman" baswed container? Maybe?
But it seems not worth the pain.