[repo-coord] Re: Latest apt broken?

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:06:18AM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andre Costa wrote:
> > 
> > > E: could not open package priority file /etc/apt/rpmpriorities
> > > 
> > > Should I downgrade apt? Anything I should fix? There was only one
> > > .rpmsave file on /etc/apt dir, and it did not contain anything relevant
> > > to the problem at hand...
> > 
> > I know Axel removed most config-files necessary to run Apt from the apt 
> > package and his package is prefered because he does not reset release 
> > numbers anymore, so it is very likely this happened to you.
> 
> No, that's certainly not ATrpms' apt. The apt in ATrpms does have the
> config files broken out to allow for any repo to supply its own, but
> of course it has file dependencies on the config files, so this
> situation is not possible unless you force the package to be installed
> with rpm --nodeps.

Sorry Axel, I jumped to conclusion when I saw rpmpriorities missing and 
your SPEC file did not have it. I did not see the dependencies to 
%{_sysconfdir}/apt/... as I was looking for atrpms-package-config. 
Possibly the late night hour was partly to blame.


> From the "mirrors" reference I would assume Panus apt
> (fedora.us/livna/extras?), which has some lua scripts to do choose
> mirrors from some list.

Yes, that makes much more sense.


> > It shouldn't be, nevertheless it happened. I cannot possibly prevent this 
> > from happening.
> 
> A nice thing would be to agree on common infrastructure packages, and
> breaking out the config files makes them vendor/repo neutral, so I
> hope this does have a chance to be accepted in the long run (not that
> we will be living to see it, but you have to plane in big timescales ;)

Yes, I agree, but how would that work for 
/etc/apt/{apt.conf,preferences,rpmpriorities} ? The atrpms-package-config 
includes this. If I do the same, both will conflict again.

Again, sorry for the misinformation, I will be more wary in the future 
about such things.

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