apt lorg3 on RH9

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> 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.

I had hoped that there was also an effort to fix both yum and smart to 
work with the output created by createrepo -n so that in the future '-n' 
could become the default.

I guess we'd first have to move to Utopia, right ? :)

Kind regards,
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