Bug blocking CentOS to provide apt

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Dag Wieers wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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

It's a known bug (at least to me :) in all apt-rpm versions prior to 
0.5.15lorg3. IIRC CentOS is still providing some ages old version of apt 
in their extras, and this only confirms that.

Fixing is easy enough, either upgrade or apply the relevant patch to that 
ancient package (it should apply cleanly):

  svn diff -r31:32 http://svn.laiskiainen.org/apt-rpm/trunk/

 	- Panu -