[Apt-Rpm] apt-rpm and rpm 4.8

[Andre Guerreiro]

On 19/05/10 17:07, Robert Xu wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> 19 May 2010 06:28 Giulio Eulisse wrote:
>
>>> IIRC the 0.5.15lorg3.94a wont build and much less work, but git HEAD should
>>> be buildable even with rpm 4.8, provided you pass>CPPFLAGS=-D_RPM_4_4_COMPAT
>>> to configure.
>>
>> Ciao again and thanks for your reply (which got swallowed as well).
>> I'm trying what you suggest out.
>>
>>
>>> That said, apt-rpm needs a new maintainer / maintainers. I simply don't have
>>> the time/energy/itch anymore, as is painfully obvious from the complete lack
>>> of activity around apt-rpm in last couple of years.
>>
>> I took the liberty to clone the master branch of your repository on
>> github (github.org) in the "upstream" branch of:
>>
>> http://github.com/ktf/apt-rpm
>>
>> and I added a couple of workarounds we need in my master branch.
>
> What I'm wondering is if the Caixa Magica branch of apt-rpm was from
> the most recent commit (like Feb 2009?).

Yes, it is. A lot of commits went by, but we're still generating a patch 
against that commit.
>
> I think most people should just switch to zypper, since it's the only
> C++ package manager that's actively developed and used. It'd be nice
> if Synaptic could be ported to zypper; it'd work well, not to mention
> be a lot faster.

For us in Caixa Mágica, what's holding us to apt-rpm is basically the 
invested effort and the working integration with Synaptic and an 
"indicator" applet that we developed (software-updater).
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