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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