[LUNI] APT and Red Hat

[John Ilagan]

Seva Epsteyn wrote:
> I promise to come back to this sometime soon, for my own benefit, I like 
> apt...
> 
> There were some problems with apt-rpm,
> 
> 	New rpm updates (today's) broke current apt-rpm, I had to hack
> 	it a bit before, and didn't think I'd be able to do it anytime
> 	soon..

I noticed the rpm conflict too today.  Got a little worried when it wanted 
to un-install apt.  I was looking too for an update apt to handle this rpm 
update but didn't see one yet...

> 
> 	Also apt-rpm seem to not be able to handle file dependancies,
> 	would need a bit more hacking, but apparantly RPMs can depend
> 	on other packages as well as files(?), for example apache would
> 	complain that it depends on /usr/share/magic.mime (part of magic
> 	package) and that this package (/usr/share/magic.mime) is not
> 	installable, even though it's not even a package and the right
> 	package (magic)  and that file were installed...



Yeah, that mime.mime conflict was strange.  I don't remember how I got 
around that one.  I recall I reinstalled the magic package or upgrade the 
magic package to a higher version to get rid of the message.

> 
> 	I plan to take a look at this again soon, but since people were
> 	actually using this for security updates figured it'd be better
> 	if I mention this earlier, rather then later ;)

Please do!

--
sji


> 
> /Seva
>