apt lorg3 on RH9

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Sat Jun 10 22:15:06 PDT 2006


On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> OTOH if you only use apt (especially for those old releases) patching 
> createrepo might not be that bad (attached if anybody wants to play around 
> with it). Oh and you'll want to apply the "epochs everywhere" patch to 
> apt-rpm to stop it messing with existence of epochs. With the that and 
> repository created with patched createrepo I *think* it should "just work" 
> with any old version.

Just FYI, a slightly modified version has now been accepted to createrepo 
upstream (with surprisingly few grumbles ;) so people don't have to keep 
patching their createrepo forever for this.

 	- Panu -



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