On Fri, Sep 12, 2003, Matt Hoosier wrote:

> I've packaged apt4rpm, a port of the apt package manager used by Debian
> that runs on top of RPM.
>
> The SRPM is available at
> http://apt.cis.ksu.edu/solaris/apt/SRPMS.cis/apt-0.5.5cnc6-20030912.src.rpm
>
> The packaging effort was done on Solaris, so there may be quirks
> relocating to Linux or *BSD. I imagine the most likely trouble will be
> the lack of functions "unsetenv" and "mkdtemp" which are originally from
> the BSD C library. A patch included in the source package contains
> re-implementations of these functions, inserted into the appropriate C
> source files.
>
> The the OpenPKG maintainers: how else may I be of assistance to help
> this package be adopted into the CVS repository?

Thanks for your contribution. I had to massage the package a little bit
more, but now is builded also for me under FreeBSD. I've not yet tested
it under run-time, but at least we've now a first cut for an APT OpenPKG
package. See http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=12199 for details. Feel
free to enhance it and send back patches...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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                                       www.engelschall.com

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