Bug#207400: [niemeyer@conectiva.com: Re: An RPM port of APT]
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----- Forwarded message from Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com> -----
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:36:09 -0300
From: Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com>
To: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader <leader@debian.org>,
"Alfredo K. Kojima" <kojima@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: An RPM port of APT
Hello!
> I would very much like to see these patches, and integrate them if
> this is feasible. If at all possible, I would prefer separate patches
> for basic RPM support, and for any other changes you may have made to
> common code.
Our code repository is located under the following Subversion
repository:
https://oops.kerneljanitors.org/repos/apt-rpm
There's a vendor branch with the stock apt in
https://oops.kerneljanitors.org/repos/apt-rpm/vendor/trunk
You may diff the main tree against it to see what's different
in apt-rpm.
Also, every change in common code is marked with a "CNC" comment
tag. If you grep for it you'll see quickly what has been touched.
I can help you in the merging back process, but for lack of time I'm
unable to split every change in small chunks. OTOH, I'd really like to
see some major stuff merged back, like authenticated repositories, lua
scripting, automake build system, apt-shell, and others.
While merging back, I'd just like to ask you to try as hard as possible
to avoid doing incompatible changes in the new features, since that
would mean breaking compatibility.
Thanks!
--
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net
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