Re: Requesting new features in the APT port for RPM

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:

> Recently PhoeNUX OS (a desktop Linux that uses apt and rpm) has been looking
> into switching build daemons for our distro. One of the tools we've been
> looking into is called SLBD (Stefan Van Der Eijk's Little Build Daemon.) The
> reason I'm emailing you with a feature request for APT is that we need be
> able to tell APT which root to install into, and which branches from the tree
> (os, contrib, updates, etc...) that it should install from, instead of
> looking at all trees transparently. If you could either add these features or
> point me to any workarounds that we could research to acheive the desired
> behaviour, I'd be very appreciative. Thanks in advance.

You can set the install root with RPM::RootDir configuration setting 
either from command line or configuration files. What sources to use in 
installation can similarly be set with Dir::Etc::sourcelist. Mach 
http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/ uses apt to create chroot 
(build) environments for several distroversions, you might want to take 
a look at that.

 	- Panu -