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. _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
