[Apt-Rpm] apt-rpm and rpm 4.8

[Robert Xu]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 14:05, Andre Guerreiro
<andre.guerreiro at caixamagica.pt> wrote:
> 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.

Any ETA?

>>
>> 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).
> --

I just thought of something: it would be nice if APT would be ported
to use libzypp
as a backend. Then not only would it work faster, more tools would be
able to stay
compatible with it.


Later,
Robert Xu