On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 05:04 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:13 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > FWIW older versions of aptitude do work with apt-rpm, eg > > eg http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/aptitude-0.3.3-1.src.rpm > > Heh. I was just working on resurrecting aptitude for FC6, as I wanted to > get my systems cleaned up and aptitude is great for spotting package > cruft. Aptitude used to work beautifully, but ever since the apt in > extras moved to the "lorg" fork, it has broken horribly. Both 0.3.3 and > 0.4.1 seem broke in the same way. API changes? I've been able to hack > the hell out of it to get it to compile, but it is incredibly unstable. Oh, I wasn't aware of it being that unstable (I don't use aptitude myself, as you might have guessed by now :) The API hasn't really changed much in lorg versions, some minor details here and there but nothing that a rebuild shouldn't fix. But apparently not so. Part of the reason.. well, at least Synaptic circumvents libapt-pkg just about every chance it gets, maybe Aptitude does that to some extent as well (Synaptic needed some love because of that). Or there has been some unintentional breakage - it's entirely possible aptitude uses libapt-pkg in ways neither apt itself or synaptic does so it's been uncaught by those. > My C++-fu is too weak to fix it. > > For one, this is probably horribly wrong but it makes gcc 4.1 happy: > > --- aptitude-0.4.1.orig/src/generic/apt/aptitude_resolver_universe.h > 2005-12- > 09 12:23:25.000000000 -0600 > +++ aptitude-0.4.1.patched/src/generic/apt/aptitude_resolver_universe.h > 2006-06- > 07 04:08:38.000000000 -0500 > @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ > /** \brief Generate an invalid dependency object. > */ > aptitude_resolver_dep() > - :cache(0), prv() > + :cache(0), prv(prv) > { > } That's something one of the altlinux apt patch fixes (by providing a default constructor for pkgCache::PrvIterator) > > If anyone wants to mess with it: > > http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/aptitude-0.4.1-0.1.src.rpm > http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/aptitude-0.4.1-0.fc6.3.x86_64.rpm > http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/aptitude-0.4.1-0.fc6.3.i386.rpm > > I started taking a whack at updating to 0.4.4 (which seems to already be > gcc 4.x clean) but haven't got it to compile yet. You're welcome to take the aptitude issues to apt-rpm mailing list, while I personally don't use it I know there are others interested in it, and I'm willing to help where I can. > > > AltLinux has a newer aptitude with their apt-rpm but it requires a > > one-liner patch that's not yet in upstream apt-rpm: > > ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/i586/SRPMS.classic/aptitude-0.4.1-alt1.1.src.rpm > > Hmmm. I originally snagged ALTLinux's patch to 0.3.3 and mangled it to > apply to 0.4.1. They appear to have now forked aptitude. Maybe it works > better, I'll have to try it later. They also have pretty much forked apt-rpm as well :) There's some pretty interesting stuff in there, at least some of it will eventually make it to the lorg releases as well. - Panu - -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
