Debian guy trying to figure out apt-rpm

[Derek Reid]

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for the help.  Looks like by simply pasting in your
rpmpriorities' contents, that resolved the problem.

I hadn't actually used yum to obtain the packages -- I'd just ftp'ed
into a mirror and downloaded the packages you mentioned.  But if you
don't mind, I'd love to know what your yum repo files look like.  Yum is
still a bit strange to me.

Thanks,

Derek

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 18:55 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007 17:49, Derek Reid wrote:
> > Hi Nigel,
> >
> > I actually built it from source but I just got the FC6 rpm version
> > installed.  I'm still getting the "E: no data in /etc/apt/rpmpriorities"
> > error when doing an 'apt-get update' though.
> >
> > What do you have in your /etc/apt/rpmrepositories?  Also, what's your
> > yum config file look like?  I've populated it with the three main repos
> > you pointed out that live in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ but still can't
> > get rid of the rpmrepositories error.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Derek
> 
> Ok. This is what's in /etc/apt/rpmpriorities
> 
> Essential:
>   grub
>   termcap
>   ed
>   kbd
>   iproute
>   libtermcap
>   libgcc
>   setserial
>   file
>   rpm
>   sysklogd
>   losetup
>   kudzu
>   glibc
>   shadow-utils
>   coreutils
>   bash
>   iputils
>   vim-minimal
>   passwd
>   cpio
>   raidtools
>   SysVinit
>   authconfig
>   hdparm
>   hotplug
>   readline
>   util-linux
>   basesystem
>   setup
>   e2fsprogs
>   procps
>   initscripts
>   filesystem
>   fedora-release
>   udev
> 
> Yum config doesn't come into the equation. You don't have to move the repo's 
> in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. They work with apt-get from where they are.
> 
> Did you do a make uninstall for your home rolled apt, before doing a yum 
> install apt.
> 
> Did a yum install apt pull in the additional package that I mentioned in my 
> previous post?
> 
> You can check this with, as user, running,
> rpm -q -a --last
> Somewhere near the top of the list you should see the apt package, and the 
> fedora-package-config-apt-6-5 one.
> 
> It's possible also that when you did a make uninstall for the home rolled apt 
> that some files were left on the machine. They should have all been removed, 
> but sometimes stuff is left behind.
> 
> Sorry for the delay, and your problems.
> 
> Nigel.
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