On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 16:59 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:25:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > Note, however, that Apt-RPM is a dead end support-wise, and you are > > > > encouraged to switch to Yum. Also see http://rpm.livna.org/ where it has > > > > Livna is ill-advised. > > So? > > Where would be the point in providing and maintaining a separate Apt > repository (and additional meta data) if there is no such official > repository for Fedora Core and Fedora Extras? livna is not connected to FC nor FE :=) > It not only increases the > repository maintenance requirements at rpm.livna.org (even if somebody > automates things with scripts), Using the right tools, the amount is close to zero ;) > it also creates a second point of failure > for users, who access the rpm.livna.org repository. > > And has anything changed with regard to "ExcludeArch: x86_64 ppc64" > and Apt's upstream maintenance? No, but ... has anything changed in RH's packaging? apt is able to support SuSE's packaging on 64bit platforms: see ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt Has anything changed in yum not being able to process: * yum remove libgcj * yum remove eclipse > The reason I recommend Yum is because based on my personal experience, it > works most of the time for me, for normal "update" and "install" mode. Try "remove", it doesn't work in many cases. > I never liked Apt and its less user-friendly interface (genbasedir, > apt-cache, install -f suggestions and the various invocations). That's your personal preference, mine is substantially different. Just try: yum install eclipse yum remove libgcj At this point you would appreciate having "apt-get -f" Ralf
