On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:40:17PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:12:13PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote: > >>SL 3.0.x and 4.x both have apt for rpms. But apt does not do well with > >>multiarch releases and it is not maintained as much as it used to be so we > >>took it out for SL 5. > > > >apt-rpm's maintainer is rather active and was even recently employed > >by Red Hat. If you thing there are issues with apt, please report it > >to him, perhaps even through bugzilla.redhat.com (although they will > >first land on my table, but perhaps the Auto-Cc in bugzilla will work) > > Did not know this. > > > > >FWIW apt and multiarch work fine on i386/x86_64 and ppc/ppc64 > >systems. I've heard about issues on ia64 some time back, but don't > >know if they were fixed or not. > > > > Last time I had tested it did not work. What version of apt supports > multiarch?
Every release since about a year and more. ATrpms (and I'm sure Dag and Dries) has apt for EL4/EL5 if you want to just give it a try. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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