Re: apt-rpm & 64-bit Fedora Core 4

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:38:47PM -0500, Jim Faulkner wrote:
> I take it that apt-rpm does not work with 64-bit Fedora?  It works fine 

Not completely.

> with 64-bit Suse, but that is probably because Suse intelligently names 
> their packages based on their architecture.

Intelligently, or "work-aroundly" -- your call.

RPM itself can handle multiple packages with the same name and different
architectures, as can several other higher-level depsolver tools.



> --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?

Probably not -- check the list archives.

<http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/>



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