Re: New experimental, unofficial apt-rpm release

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:12:18PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Hey folks (is there anybody still here anyway?)

You listening to "The Wall"? ;)

> Just when you thought it was finally dead for good, here's a new
> EXPERIMENTAL AND UNOFFICIAL new apt-rpm release featuring:
> * barebones multilib support hack for x86_64
> * support for rpm >=3D 4.4.3, including Suggests handling

It is either too late for Xmas or too early for April fool's day :)

> Before you get too excited, the multilib support is hacky and
> non-optimal at best. It simply renames apt internally any non-native
> packages on 64bit systems "foo" -> "foo.32bit" to avoid the deeper
> issues. I'm sure it has bugs, some known (cross-arch obsoletes certainly
> wont work correctly etc) and some unknown, but it hasn't trashed my box
> yet. Knock wood, and *treat with care*. Do let me know if it works for
> you or not.

Have you encountered any cross-arch obsoltes? I wouldn't even know how
to syntactically specfile them.

> The place to get it: http://laiskiainen.org/apt/testing/
>=20
> Yeah, I've been bored. Things are just too easy in Python and needed a
> bit of challenge for a change ;) I wont make any promises about actively
> continuing apt-rpm development but hey, if people still want to use it,
> who knows...

apt still is the speed-of-light champion of all depsolvers. And
outside of multilib it performes very well.

Thanks a lot for this, Panu!
--=20
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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