On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:53:17 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:23:56 +0000, André Alves wrote: > > > > > I've already installed apt package with yum (yum install apt) and I need > > > others repositories because the one how came with apt does not work yet. > > > Anyone knows others? > > > > This has been covered before, see list archives. E.g. Matthias > > Saou at freshrpms.net also mirrors Core and Extras in an Apt repository: > > > > http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/ > > > > To "fix" the broken mirror-select stuff in Fedora Extras' apt, there > > is an update already, which you may need to install with yum or rpm. > > > > What got fixed? See package changelog: rpm --query --changelog apt | less %changelog * Wed Jun 22 2005 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0.5.15cnc7-6 - Drop fedora.us GPG key and vendors.list entry. - Remove mirror list stuff (#161042). - Drop no longer needed explicit python-abi dependency. > I installed the update, ran "apt-get mirror-select", > and got "E: Invalid operation mirror-select". A total uninstall and > reinstall of apt still generates the same error message. No time to try and reproduce that, so if you are sure about it, maybe adding a comment to bug #161042 will yield a response. Maybe you need to clean up in /etc/apt/*, especially your sources lists. > After reading > the archives of the Fedora 4 test list my take is that the Fedora > folks will not fix mirror-select. Wrong. Leaving it the mirror-select stuff was an accident. For FC3, download.fedora.us provided an apt repository. With FC4, this was discontinued, but the apt package was not reconfigured. > Their position is that a) there are > no apt-get mirrors or b) they cannot legally reference available > apt-get repos. a) is wrong [see information in the mail you replied to], b) is correct. -- Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz) - Linux 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 loadavg: 1.64 1.81 1.86
