I'm new to this list as well as BLAG, the Fedora-based distribution that primarily uses apt-rpm, so hello everyone. I'm wondering, what do people know about the use of Adept with apt-rpm. I see a recent post (http://web.mornfall.net/blog/adept_2.2_on_fedora.html) indicating it has been compiled for read-only use, which would already be useful to me (I use KDE, find Synaptic annoying, and mostly use apt-get on the command-line for actual installations or removals).
Matt Flaschen
On Sunday, July 29, 2007 11:42 pm Matthew Flaschen wrote:
I'm new to this list as well as BLAG, the Fedora-based distribution that primarily uses apt-rpm, so hello everyone. I'm wondering, what do people know about the use of Adept with apt-rpm. I see a recent post (http://web.mornfall.net/blog/adept_2.2_on_fedora.html) indicating it has been compiled for read-only use, which would already be useful to me (I use KDE, find Synaptic annoying, and mostly use apt-get on the command-line for actual installations or removals).
Matt Flaschen
At some point when I'm bored and have nothing to do, I was going to work with Adept and add support for rpm/yum to it. I can't say much about rpm/apt, because I'm not really familiar with how apt works.
Kelly wrote:
On Sunday, July 29, 2007 11:42 pm Matthew Flaschen wrote:
I'm new to this list as well as BLAG, the Fedora-based distribution that primarily uses apt-rpm, so hello everyone. I'm wondering, what do people know about the use of Adept with apt-rpm. I see a recent post (http://web.mornfall.net/blog/adept_2.2_on_fedora.html) indicating it has been compiled for read-only use, which would already be useful to me (I use KDE, find Synaptic annoying, and mostly use apt-get on the command-line for actual installations or removals).
Matt Flaschen
At some point when I'm bored and have nothing to do, I was going to work with Adept and add support for rpm/yum to it. I can't say much about rpm/apt, because I'm not really familiar with how apt works.
There is already apt-rpm, which allows you to install, remove, and upgrade rpm packages using apt-get. That's why I don't think it should be That Hard TM to get Adept to do the same.
Matt Flaschen
On Monday, July 30, 2007 12:33 am Matthew Flaschen wrote:
There is already apt-rpm, which allows you to install, remove, and upgrade rpm packages using apt-get. That's why I don't think it should be That Hard TM to get Adept to do the same.
Matt Flaschen
apt is just the command-line tool. Unless there is a library (I don't remember if there is for yum or not), you have to know how to parse the tool's repository format (yum's is rather easy, 'cause it's standardized as part of LSB IIRC)...
Unless, of course, you fork the installer process, which I guess you could do, though the problem is you will likely lose the really detailed error messages.
Kelly wrote:
apt is just the command-line tool. Unless there is a library (I don't remember if there is for yum or not), you have to know how to parse the tool's repository format (yum's is rather easy, 'cause it's standardized as part of LSB IIRC)...
Really, it's misguided to imply Debian repositories are undocumented or proprietary just because LSB chose RPM. Anyway, there is a libapt library on Debian; I'm not sure if apt-rpm ported that or bypassed it completely.
Unless, of course, you fork the installer process, which I guess you could do, though the problem is you will likely lose the really detailed error messages.
Which I don't think Synaptic or Adept provide anyway, even on Debian.
Matt Flaschen
On Monday, July 30, 2007 12:49 am Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Really, it's misguided to imply Debian repositories are undocumented or proprietary just because LSB chose RPM. Anyway, there is a libapt library on Debian; I'm not sure if apt-rpm ported that or bypassed it completely.
I'm not implying any of that.
Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen <at> gatech.edu> writes:
people know about the use of Adept with apt-rpm. I see a recent post (http://web.mornfall.net/blog/adept_2.2_on_fedora.html) indicating it
The date there is misleading. Go to the front page and you'll see that post is actually from June 2006. Unfortunately, nothing has happened in over a year.
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