apt vs urpmi

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 18:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 12:49 -0400, Gary Greene wrote:
> > > * Panu Matilainen [2006-05-03 02:25:09 -0700]: 
> 
> > Yes, apt-rpm DOES handle these, and quite well as PhoeNUX OS uses the
> > same version of RPM that existed in MDK 2005LE and we've noted only
> > good things in apt's dep tracking for RPMs.
> metadata repos which simultaneously contain both src.rpms and binary
> rpms (mixed repos) aren't even close to being functional.
> 
> They work most of the time, but this is more or less random luck,
> AFAICT.

Retrieving source packages from mixed repositories is indeed known to be
completely busted but are you seeing issues with binary rpm's from mixed
repositories? If so that's a severe bug somewhere, src.rpm packages from
repomd have architecture "src" which apt should just skip as unusable.

	- Panu -