Re: apt-rpm for centOS 3.x ?

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 17:44, Olivier Kaloudoff wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> >> 	I just installed an RHEL 3 - compatible distribution,
> >> centOS Linux 3.1 (http://www.centos.org), and am unable to find
> >> pre-packaged apt-rpm for this distrib.
> >> 
> >> 	would some of you have already done the contrib rpms ?
> >
> > Here my port of the fedora.us apt for RHEL (using whitebox), but it should be 
> > compatible enough:
> > http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/3.0/RPMS.stable/
> >
> > A problem though, there seems to be a shortage of apt-enabled RHEL 
> > repositories.  )-:
> 
> Hi Rex, thank you, that's great.
> 
> So here is a second question, maybe that's a FAQ, hope not:
> 
> is there a way to convert a YUM repository into an APT-RPM one ?
Do you mean to access remote yum-repositories via apt? 
I am not aware about any such possibility.

> in this case, I'd be ok to mirror some kind of repository, cause I have
> access to some cool servers.
The probably most simple way is to mirror the directories containing the
rpms and then to generate repositories yourself, using the gen* scripts
which accompany apt.

I for one recommend using apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net;
FC-packages available from http://packman.links2linux.de).
It's "not that easy" to configure, but ... I am biased ;)

Ralf