Re: redhat abe

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> > seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > really, then you know apt doesn't work, at all, with multilib.
> > > 
> > > You gonna fix that?
> > > 
> > 
> > I am, one of these days, probably with help from either Gustavo or Panu.
> 
> I wish you luck :) If you *really* want to mess with apt internals I do have
> ideas how it could be done (some of which I've tried but got tangled in the
> implementation details and dropped due to lack of time and interest). But
> really I think time would be better spent improving yum/smartpm to have the
> equivalent of build-dep, source and such operations.

And make Smart work on older versions of python and with older rpmlib 
versions, at least RHEL3. RHN support is also on my wishlist.

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