On Debian and Fedora experiences

[Callum Lerwick]

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.
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)
   {
   }

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.

> 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.
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