Axel Thimm wrote:
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.
News to me too, there were several mail-list & forum threads about
limited development & support for apt-rpm last year and recommendations
to switch to yum or smart-rpm. Since I was most familiar with yum & knew
Seth was hired by the Redhat last year, I assumed that would be an
advantage for yum & have focused my attention on yum improvements in
Fedora, EL & SL. Also, there appear to be no new apt-rpm releases, and
many repos no longer include apt-rpm /etc/sources examples in their
FAQs, to help folks setup apt-rpm.
Apt4RPM News - 28 Februari 2005: a new version (0.69.3) has been released...
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/
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