Rollback functionality for apt-rpm

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> I've only had a quick glance over the patch, but one immediate concern is 
> that this adds a hard dependency on sqlite3. I've no idea if it's 
> buildable (without upgrading like 50 other packages) on rpm-4.0 era 
> systems (eg RHEL 2.1). Dag / Axel, comments? Breaking those systems is not 
> really an option at the moment as support for old systems appears to be 
> one of the bigger "selling points" of apt these days. Another thing is 
> that I'd like to keep the external hard dependencies to minimum.

Which brings us back to the libxml2 dependency :) In a previous discussion 
it was mentioned that this dependency might be removed. Since RHEL2.1 
RHEL3 both ship with an older libxml2 (2.4.19 and 2.5.10 resp.) and I 
think the minimum for apt is 2.6. CentOS is not willing to put apt into 
their extras repository (which is enabled by default) since they do not 
want to replace the upstream libxml2.

Since sqlite is not shipping with any RHEL release, it shouldn't be a 
problem. But it's possible that if RHEL5 ships with it, we have to be 
careful not to require anything newer than that.

I haven't tried building sqlite3 for RHEL, sqlite2 is available though.
I guess I should look into it. If Axel says it's possible, who am I to 
doubt ? :)

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