Maintaining a redhat system

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 05:34 pm, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Due to some proprietry software I need to maintain a redhat chroot (in a
> debian system) to compile certain modules. However, I need to install some
> dev libraries to compile new stuff and they need newer versions of certain
> c++ libraries, etc...
>
> So, how can I (like in Debian) simply have the system install the packages
> while taking care that the rest doesn't break. I tried looking through
> rpmfind.net but got lost in the version numbers and the fact that some of
> the dependancies can only be satisfied in PPC (??!!?!) or Suse or Mandrake.
> Aaargh!!

I have recently tried out apt-rpm in a limited manner, and it seemed to work 
okay.

See google for details.

Rasjid.