Re: [Synaptic-devel] Will apt support createrepo/rpmmeta-data repositories

[Richard Bos]

Op dinsdag 13 september 2005 22:49, schreef Panu Matilainen:
> Hi Richard!
>
> I don't think anybody is actively working on adding the repomd support
> to apt. Progeny folks started on it, ages ago, but there's been zero
> progress on it since the initial "here's a base class to parse xml data
> with expat" patch in their tree. I did some work on top of that a year
> or so ago but got nowhere near working state. It's by no means
> technically impossible (or even terribly hard, just quite a bit of work)
> but seems to me that
> - Debian people aren't really interested in the format, they're happy
> enought with what they have already (although there *were* Debian, or at
> least Progeny folks discussing the new repomd data on the mailing list)
> - Folks in the RPM camp have moved on to either yum or smart, of which
> the later can support just about any packaging format you throw at it so
> nobody is interested in wrestling with the problem within apt-rpm. :-/
>
>          - Panu -

Panu!

that's what I thought already.  SuSE is moving to repomd now with suse10, 
hence my question.  Thanks for your swift reply.

-- 
Richard Bos
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