apt-rpm & 64-bit Fedora Core 4

Jim Faulkner <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:38:47 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.conectiva.apt-rpm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I take it that apt-rpm does not work with 64-bit Fedora?  It works fine 
with 64-bit Suse, but that is probably because Suse intelligently names 
their packages based on their architecture.

On Fedora Core 4, 32-bit packages and 64-bit packages are given the same 
name:
[root@ftp2 ~]# rpm -qa popt
popt-1.10.1-21
popt-1.10.1-21
[root@ftp2 ~]#

Here's what happens when I run "apt-get -s upgrade" on a full installation 
of Fedora Core 4:
[root@ftp2 ~]# apt-get -s upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
You might want to run `apt-get --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  4Suite: Depends: libc.so.6()(64bit)
          Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
          Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
          Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
          Depends: libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
          Depends: libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
  Canna: Depends: libc.so.6()(64bit)
... (thousands more lines of dependency problems) ...
  zlib#1.2.2.2-3: Depends: libc.so.6()(64bit)
                  Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
                  Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
  zsh: Depends: libc.so.6()(64bit)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
       Depends: libdl.so.2()(64bit)
       Depends: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
       Depends: libm.so.6()(64bit)
       Depends: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
       Depends: libnsl.so.1()(64bit)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using --fix-broken.

--fix-broken doesn't help.  Is there any configuration option in 
apt-0.5.15cnc7 that would allow this to work?  If not, is 64-bit Fedora 
going to be supported in a future version of apt-rpm?

thanks,
Jim Faulkner