Re: Re: New experimental, unofficial apt-rpm release

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On Monday 06 February 2006 2:44 pm, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 16:59 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:30:41PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > > > The place to get it: http://laiskiainen.org/apt/testing/
> > > > >
> > > > > 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!
> > >
> > > Best thanks is trying it out and letting me know if it works or not :)
> >
> > It works, and it works that well, that I patched it into ATrpms' apt
> > packages and have started shipping it to the 64 bit world. It can't be
> > worse for 64 bits that w/o these patches. :)
>
> Cool :)
>
> I just finished hacking it a bit more, the results can be found in
> http://laiskiainen.org/apt/testing/
>
> Shasums of the new version:
> 60e2d5b9b85cb48b2fe68e4646a6f8c303a8bc7f  apt-0.5.15lorg2-1.src.rpm
> d4693d50c84bf1ac6ca41d645b9b2e43c778e44b  apt-0.5.15lorg2.tar.bz2
>
> Nothing too dramatic here but the multilib stuff is cleaned up a bit and
> generalized, you wont see the difference in practise. The more visible
> change is that apt now supports yum-style distro-version-package
> setting, you can set APT::DistroVerPkg=3D"fedora-release" and any
> $(VERSION) references in sources.lists can are replaced with the
> packages version. So you can now use sources.list entries like this:
> "rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/$(VERSION)/$(ARCH) core"
>
> Also you can override the version itself. Think of the following on FC4:
> # apt-get -o apt::distroversion=3D5 update
> # apt-get -o apt::distroversion=3D5 dist-upgrade
>
> Full distro upgrades without touching a single config file :)

Sweet! This is a very NICE feature. Thanks for the hard work Panu.

>
> > But I did notice one slight thing with RHEL4/x86_64 which is probably
> > unrelated to x86_64 and your patches:
> >
> > You might want to run `apt-get --fix-broken install' to correct these.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   apr-devel: Depends: gcc (=3D 3.4.3) but 3.4.4-2 is installed
> > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using --fix-broken.
> >
> > gcc is gcc-3.4.4-2, but provides gcc =3D 3.4.3-26 as well.
>
> Yup, I'm aware of that one. It's caused by apt dismissing
> self-referencing provides in packages:
> http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2003-May/001702.html
>
> I'll have a look - the cure could be as simple as removing the two lines
> in question, or then all hell is going to break loose. :)
>
> 	- Panu -
>
> > Thanks!
>
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