On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 13:28 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > new repodata format) > > IMO, this is more a matter of politics and willingness, but a technical > > requirement. > > > > Technically, I don't see any need for apt to adopt yum's repodata > > format. Politically, this requirement is introduced by RH not wanting to > > add apt-repositories and fedora.us apparently being unable to set up > > complete repositories. If apt-repositories are cleverly set up, the > > additional overhead they introduce in addition to the original files > > becomes more or less negligible. > > Well, generating repositories demands a lot of a system. Generating 3 > different repositories (apt, old-yum, new-yum) is really becoming an > issue and prevents me from releasing updates flexibly. If I have to wait > 30 to 45 minutes before I can starting syncing with a mirror, I delay that > sometimes until the next time I'm online which could be 24h later. Try aptate from apt4rpm (http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net - Try the version from CVS-head, the released tarballs are troublesome) and feel free to ask me on PM in case of problems :-) > You have to know that I refuse to work with passphrase-less keys, so > signing and syncing is an interactive step and requires my attention. > > BTW: Even SuSE is available with apt. I wonder why they don't have the > > multilib issue - I guess they don't ship multilibs :) BTW: The repositories at ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE (semi official SuSE apt repositories) are built by aptate/apt4rpm. Ralf
