Guillaume Rousse wrote:

>Mark Grieveson wrote:
>  
>
>>>Hello.  I really appreciate your service.  I have started using
>>>PCLinuxOS, which is based on Mandrake Linux.  It uses RPM, with a
>>>Debian-like apt-get set-up (it uses Synaptic with RPM repositories,
>>>instead of urpmi).  I was wondering if it would be possible to have a
>>>Packages.gz file set up for PCLinuxOS users within the Mandrake
>>>mirrors (in the same way that your Ubuntu mirrors are set, for using
>>>Synaptic).
>>>      
>>>
>With the difference than Unbuntu people takes care of it themselves. I
>personally have no clue about apt-get support, but you're welcome to
>send a patch to our index generation script:
>http://www.zarb.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/bin/update.cron?root=plf-svn&view=log
>
>
>  
>
>>>Thanks for your consideration.  Again, I really appreciate having
>>>access to the Mandrake RPMs.  Thanks.
>>>      
>>>
>>Hello.  From the PLF website contact list, I attempted to join the
>>mailman group so that I could express my appreciation of your service. 
>>Alas, the mailman program seems to have taken exception to me.  Anyway,
>>I do appreciate your service, and hope that the suggestion above, to
>>make Mandrake files workable with PCLinuxOS' apt-rpm service, is a
>>possibility.
>>    
>>
apt-rpm is very screwy. Don't use it, use smartpm. It supports both
apt-rpm and urpmi repositories.
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