APT-enabled *development* repository

[Damiano Albani]

Hello,

I can't find any APT repository which provides 
development/RawHide branch for Fedora. 
I know there's Yum, but, up to me, it's unusable (long 
downloads for the bunch of tiny headers, triggered every 
time yum is used, etc).

So, do you know one ?

Thanks,

Damiano

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Damiano Albani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't find any APT repository which provides 
> development/RawHide branch for Fedora. 
> I know there's Yum, but, up to me, it's unusable (long 
> downloads for the bunch of tiny headers, triggered every 
> time yum is used, etc).
>
> So, do you know one ?

The only apt-enabled rawhide repository I know of is on freshrpms:

rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux development/i386 core

- Panu -

[Mark Heslep]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Damiano Albani wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can't find any APT repository which provides 
> > development/RawHide branch for Fedora. 
> > I know there's Yum, but, up to me, it's unusable (long 
> > downloads for the bunch of tiny headers, triggered every 
> > time yum is used, etc).
> >
> > So, do you know one ?
>
> The only apt-enabled rawhide repository I know of is on freshrpms:
>
> rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux development/i386 core
> Panu -

Yep Ive been using apt freshrpms - development for a long time but:
-as of a couple days ago most of the headers were out of sync with the 
packages, ie, the headers were advanced one version beyond the 
packages.  This caused ~ %80 of apt-get upgrade to fail.
-the most recent version of apt was not built against the new version 3 
of rpm causing rpm, yum and all of its cousins to be held back

-Mark

[Matthias Saou]

guest wrote :
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > The only apt-enabled rawhide repository I know of is on freshrpms:
> >
> > rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux development/i386 core
>
> Yep Ive been using apt freshrpms - development for a long time but:
> -as of a couple days ago most of the headers were out of sync with the 
> packages, ie, the headers were advanced one version beyond the 
> packages.  This caused ~ %80 of apt-get upgrade to fail.
> -the most recent version of apt was not built against the new version 3 
> of rpm causing rpm, yum and all of its cousins to be held back

For the out-of-sync problem, you can temporarily use ayo.us.freshrpms.net
where there won't be any problem with the development tree (please don't
point to there for anything else, thanks!). As for the new rpm breaking
apps linked against rpm... I really should play around more with the devel
tree... but expect some goodies and fixes (IIRC ImageMagick dependent stuff
like transcode is also broken now) once test1 is out, at least to bring the
"apt-get dist-upgrade" possibility to the daring :-)

Matthias

[Iago Rubio]

El mié, 04 de 02 de 2004 a las 13:07, Damiano Albani escribió:
> I can't find any APT repository which provides 
> development/RawHide branch for Fedora.

Sorry, I can't help you
> I know there's Yum, but, up to me, it's unusable (long 
> downloads for the bunch of tiny headers, triggered every 
> time yum is used, etc).

If this is the reason that made yum unusable for you, you can try the -C
option - "yum -C" - to run yum from cache, and avoid to download the
headers each time you use it.

regards

- iago rubio -

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:07 +0100, Damiano Albani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't find any APT repository which provides 
> development/RawHide branch for Fedora. 
> I know there's Yum, but, up to me, it's unusable (long 
> downloads for the bunch of tiny headers, triggered every 
> time yum is used, etc).
>
> So, do you know one ?

FreshRPMS, URL already posted by someone else, although you might want
to know that up2date seems to work fine using yum (i.e. no stalls
getting headers).

up2date-gui even refreshes within a second or so after another window
has been moved over it, or after a virtual desktop switch, which is a
nice surprise.

HTH,

Michel

[Steven Pritchard]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:07:18PM +0100, Damiano Albani wrote:
> I can't find any APT repository which provides 
> development/RawHide branch for Fedora.

rpm http://apt.kspei.com fedora/development/i386 os

I don't have a lot of bandwidth, so be gentle.  ;-)  (But it's there
if you need it...)

Steve