On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:40:17PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:12:13PM -0500, Connie Sieh wrote:
> >>SL 3.0.x and 4.x both have apt for rpms.  But apt does not do well with
> >>multiarch releases and it is not maintained as much as it used to be so we
> >>took it out for SL 5.
> >
> >apt-rpm's maintainer is rather active and was even recently employed
> >by Red Hat. If you thing there are issues with apt, please report it
> >to him, perhaps even through bugzilla.redhat.com (although they will
> >first land on my table, but perhaps the Auto-Cc in bugzilla will work)
> 
> Did not know this.
> 
> >
> >FWIW apt and multiarch work fine on i386/x86_64 and ppc/ppc64
> >systems. I've heard about issues on ia64 some time back, but don't
> >know if they were fixed or not.
> >
> 
> Last time I had tested it did not work.  What version of apt supports 
> multiarch?

Every release since about a year and more.

ATrpms (and I'm sure Dag and Dries) has apt for EL4/EL5 if you want to
just give it a try.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net