up2date and apt/yum repositories

[Adrian Likins]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:55:42PM +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> I've been doing some testing using
> 
> up2date-3.9.13-2
> 
> Firstly an obvious should bail is:
> 
> up2date --get-source against a yum url, I believe yum-arch now indexes
> headers of src.rpms but when running against fedora I get:
> 
> up2date --get-source synaptic
> ...
> synaptic-0.43.1-0.fdr.1.rh90.93.src.rpm...
> There was some sort of I/O error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> Should we ignore src.rpm headers in yum archives as the path to them is
> not necessarily obvious (parallel with yum directory, or a subdirectory,
> etc).
>
	Right now it guesses it's parallel with the yum directory,
since this seemed the most popular layout after a quick survery. 
But yum doesnt indicate where SRPMS are stashed in any obvious
way, so it's currently a guess. If the SRPMS stuff gets standardized,
I can make it respect that. 
 

> In addition I just tried to update to kernel test4 from arjanv's
> repository (using apt up2date):
> 
> up2date --nox --force kernel
> ...
> Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> file /lib/modules from install of kernel-2.6.0-0.test4.1.32 conflicts
> with file from package filesystem-2.2.1-4
> 
> rpm -qf /lib/modules/
> filesystem-2.2.1-4
> kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl
> kernel-2.6.0-0.test3.1.31
> 
> This seems odd to me as both kernel-2.4 spec and kernel 2.6 specs are
> consistent in having /lib/modules in them, am I missing something
> obvious as this should work.

	Odd to get a conflict on a dir... I'll investigate.

Adrian