redhat abe
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at welho.com
Fri Jan 28 09:58:00 UTC 2005
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 08:52 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>>> RH has the ability to change this at any time.
>>
>> ability? yes. willingness? no.
>>
>>
>>> It is not - RH has had no problems in adding yum support and has no
>>> problem in adding and removing other packages at any time at RH's free
>>> will.
>>
>> Do you know why they had no issue adding yum support? B/c it could be
>> covered internally. If it broke and I wasn't around to fix it - they
>> could take care of it.
>>
>> 100+ lines of C++ they were not interested in maintaining.
> How comes, FE/fedora.us is able to maintain it?
Fedora.us has/had an upstream apt-rpm developer (some weird masochist
sharing my mail-address :) maintaining it and writing all sorts of weird
Lua-extensions to it to better fit the world of FC, external kernel-module
packages and such.
>
> I know apt's code is ... ... leaves a lot to be desired, but it doesn't
> require that much effort to maintain the package.
Maintaining the package ain't hard, but developing apt-rpm into various
directions required by FC (multilib, new repodata format) is just about as
fun as pulling teeth without anesthesia. The new repodata is something
that would be sanely implementable into apt, multilib as used in FC and
RHEL (namely packages with same nevr but different arch simultaenously
installed) is something that doesn't fit nicely into it's design. And
that's putting it somewhat mildly. I've actually tried various approaches
to adding multilib support to apt with varying success, however none of
work well enough to be actually usable.
- Panu -
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