Op dinsdag 13 september 2005 22:49, schreef Panu Matilainen: > Hi Richard! > > I don't think anybody is actively working on adding the repomd support > to apt. Progeny folks started on it, ages ago, but there's been zero > progress on it since the initial "here's a base class to parse xml data > with expat" patch in their tree. I did some work on top of that a year > or so ago but got nowhere near working state. It's by no means > technically impossible (or even terribly hard, just quite a bit of work) > but seems to me that > - Debian people aren't really interested in the format, they're happy > enought with what they have already (although there *were* Debian, or at > least Progeny folks discussing the new repomd data on the mailing list) > - Folks in the RPM camp have moved on to either yum or smart, of which > the later can support just about any packaging format you throw at it so > nobody is interested in wrestling with the problem within apt-rpm. :-/ > > - Panu -
Panu! that's what I thought already. SuSE is moving to repomd now with suse10, hence my question. Thanks for your swift reply. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless _______________________________________________ Synaptic-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/synaptic-devel
