On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > Apt follows it's own extremely strict requirement of leaving no > > unsatisfied dependencies after any given operation to the point of > > self-termination. > > Which is probably good. > > > When doing dist-upgrades with apt you should always > > point it to all the target distro version's third party repositories > > you're using, not just the OS itself to avoid these things (and actually > > get a much smoother upgrade). > > I only use FL stuff. Problem was I was using the FL apt for 8.0 (testing, > no release), and there is no RL apt for 9, so it had no chance... This > is a big problem with FL right now (missing yum and apt packages for > various OS versions) that I really wish was a higher priority than it seems > to be. But that's life... Ok - that's obviously a problem without a solution currently :( > > > Mm.. that's a bit unclear sentence perhaps, > > what I mean is that if you're using lets say RHL 9 with freshrpms and want > > to upgrade to FC1, you need to point apt to FC1 os component AND freshrpms > > built for FC1 before proceeding with the upgrade. > > It was clear the first time. My problem is lack of FL support for APT/YUM > plain and simple. I appreciate the work done by you and others on getting > apt and yum out for FL. Don't get me wrong, I *really* appreciate all your > work. Unfortunately, more work needs to be done yet in this area. > > Since the "official" advise on the FL web site is to use apt or yum, we > should make getting an apt/yum for each OS a high priority, IMHO. Indeed. I've been watching the FL apt package being stuck in QA for a long, long time for no particularly good reason and Jason has probably gotten totally fed up with the situation. I personally dont unfortunately have time or resources to test and verify on old RHL versions, but as far as I can tell by just looking at the package in QA it's perfectly ready for publishing. It might not be perfect but it still beats the hell out of telling people to use apt from freshrpms or so because all the other packagings of apt lack a significant amount of functionality compared to the fedora.us/fedoralegacy version. Or to cut it short: publish the damn apt package in QA, there's nothing terribly wrong with it. You can always publish update to it later (news at eleven, bugs are found and new version gets released) - Panu - -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
