redhat abe

Jeff Johnson n3npq at nc.rr.com
Thu Jan 27 12:12:12 UTC 2005


Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

>>>the goals are very similar to mach, but mach uses apt which made it not
>>>suitable as basis for the ABE
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I suggested to mach developers quite some time ago that --aid was more than
>>enough to populate an empty chroot from rpm packages. Thanks for the 
>>manifest
>>proof that, indeed, --aid is sufficient.
>>    
>>
>
>If all you want to do is populate an empty chroot then it is.  For a
>system like this you need more.  There's no good way to resolve
>dependencies using only rpm.  And when you are trying to do more than
>just "build against this known set of packages I have locally on my hard
>disk" it's insufficient.
>  
>

Not true, but I can see you are still in denial, and with perhaps a 
different vision
of what is needed.

Certainly no offense to either you or mach is specifically intended, I'm 
an equal opportunity offender ;-)

Hint: Lose the bleeping subliminal messages in the mach progress bar. ;-)

73 de Jeff





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