Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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.
>   

News to me too, there were several mail-list & forum threads about 
limited development & support for apt-rpm last year and recommendations 
to switch to yum or smart-rpm. Since I was most familiar with yum & knew 
Seth was hired by the Redhat last year, I assumed that would be an 
advantage for yum & have focused my attention on yum improvements in 
Fedora, EL & SL. Also, there appear to be no new apt-rpm releases, and 
many repos no longer include apt-rpm /etc/sources examples in their 
FAQs, to help folks setup apt-rpm.

Apt4RPM News - 28 Februari 2005: a new version (0.69.3) has been released...
http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

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