Hi, On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Christoph Thiel wrote:
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
apt-rpm is no longer maintained, as the head developer moved along to do smartpm...
Richard, take your guns and come into the saloon. There is a young cowboy throwing full bottles against the wall here. ;-))
Eberhard, there is a difference between apt-rpm [1] and apt4rpm [2]. Anyway, I guess Richard and I pretty much agree on this topic ;)
[1] https://moin.conectiva.com.br/AptRpm [2] http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
OK, Richard, you can come without the guns. If apt-rpm is just the "client side" and this shall get enhanced with smartpm, it is OK. On the long run, we like to "educate" all the apt repository contributors to run createrepo directly at their "home repository", with the hope that in a not near future the servers would not need to build the apt repositories themselves anymore. "not near" because probably not before the whole world will have dropped SUSE-9.3... In this aspect, the move from apt-rpm to smartpm is a good step. The next major step would be that Novell/SUSE offers their "build host" infrastructure for all our contributors, and - just a rational consequence - a new central home at opensuse.org for all the apt4suse repositories we already have. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)