--=-AHSML6RFCbEzDWeWlIm8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 02:02, Dan Burcaw wrote: >=20 > Hi all, >=20 > I apologize if this has been talked about.. but a really > swell feature would allow me to specify an alternate location > for the headers. >=20 > I've pushed apt-get on my users in the last 6 months, and just telling > them to move to yum would be... errr... rough :-) >=20 > So, I'd like to provide support for both. To do this I would > likely generate the approproriate repositories for each on my > master ftp server. However, I'm concerned that having the > headers as a subdir inside the main packages directory would > cause some apt-get confusion. >=20 This might be tricky - the header.info file is the reason - it is yum's quick index file. it stores this information: epoch:name-ver-rel-arch=3Drelative/path/to/the/rpm that relative path part would be tricky - we would have to make sure that the headers path still matched the relative path and then it won't care AT ALL where the headers are. but those two paths would have to stay insync other wise I can't be completely sure I've got the right package - afterall filename does not necessarily have anything to do with packagename. I don't think apt should care at all - I'm not familiar with how apt builds its repositories but I can't imagine it indexes EVERY file willy-nilly. I figure it would just go after rpms. So it should happily ignore the .hdr files. -sv > Perhaps apt won't be confused... I haven't had a chance to test this > yet.. but still might be a nice feature. >=20 --=-AHSML6RFCbEzDWeWlIm8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9rdzq1Aj3x2mIbMcRAm5SAJ95BfW4+yokpl2BmfeJfQNl5K9nZQCgjQVv V2apAo8NNJ1ImA/u9Nr/RpE= =ShDO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-AHSML6RFCbEzDWeWlIm8--
