Bug blocking CentOS to provide apt

[Gary L. Greene, Jr.]

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 07:21, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi Dag,
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > Apparently there is still an outstanding bug for CentOS blocking
> > consideration to provide apt as an alternative to yum.
> >
> > Can someone validate that this indeed is a problem with apt ? At least
> > Yum doesn't care about it (which is in itself not a guarantee that this
> > is not a packaging bug instead of an apt bug).
> >
> > Here is the info:
> >
> > 	http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1502
>
> this seems to be neither a bug in apt or any packages, it is a bug in
> the way centos generates the apt repo, e.g. like a missing --bloat to
> genbasedir or similar that strips off part of the metadata like file
> provides and virtual dependencies.
>
> I tested it with RHEL4/i386 on apt-0.5.15lorg3.2 and apr-devel hapily
> installs (properly pulling in apr).

Either that or they have autoreqprov turned off in their version of RPM... 
I've NEVER seen this kind of bug unless it was a packaging error on PhoeNUX.

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