For the people who want to check out synaptic on mandrake I tried to cook an apt that works with regular mandrake mirrors. It seems to work ok, but on my systems it reports a dependency problem. And since it's apt, it refuses to do anything as long as there are problems. Without this dep problem it happily (dist-)upgrades and installs cooker packages.
The following packages have unmet dependencies: util-linux: Depends: shadow-utils (>= 20000902-5) but 1:4.0.3-5mdk is installed I looked a bit at the version compare code but it seems ok to me, handling epochs and even using rpmlib to compare versions. It can be worked around by building a util-linux that depends on a different version of shadow-utils, but that's not a solution. Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this dependency compare problem? If I rebuild the apt SRPM in contrib it reports the same, so maybe it's related to rpm 4.2. source rpm is at http://www.time4t.net/~cjw/mdk-cooker/SRPMS/apt-0.5.5cnc6-1mdk.src.rpm Christiaan
