apt-rpm

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Tue Dec 9 13:46:52 UTC 2003


On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Mako Gabor wrote:

> 
> 09-Dec-2003 fedora-devel-list-request at redhat.com:
> > From: Warren Togami <warren at togami.com>
> > https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1028
> > Panu's latest fedora.us apt package uses rpmlib unlike previous 
> > fedora.us apt releases.  This makes it a bit more acceptable for RH 
> > people who previously had the kneejerk "--nodeps" reaction. =)
> > 
> > I suspect that RH will accept apt and opencarpet only after the new 
> > unified meta-data thing happens hopefully before FC2.  BTW anyone know 
> > the status of that?
> > 
> 
> When does the apt-rpm use the cdrom as rpm source? It can use the ftp
> and http only. :(

It can use the cdrom but you'd need specifically created images for that 
to work. If you burn your own CD's anyway then it's not that hard to do..
see http://freshrpms.net/apt/ for instructions. 

	- Panu -





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