Bug 71768

Summary:	APT would be better
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	ruysenaars
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	mantas, wtogami
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/
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Description ruysenaars 2002-08-18 15:11:05 UTC

I don't understand why package management is still a PITA in redhat, and that
you still aren't using apt4rpm. Using it would greatly improve ease of use. It
works great, Conectiva uses it already.

http://freshrpms.net/apt/
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/projetos/42

Comment 1 Tim Powers 2002-08-20 14:25:44 UTC

Reassigning to rpm component.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-08-20 14:33:55 UTC

This is an up2date or anaconda RFE, as rpm is
an analogue of dpkg, not apt.

Comment 3 Mantas Kriaučiūnas 2003-01-16 09:20:45 UTC

APT already runs on Red Hat, see:

http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

Maybe Red Hat developers can collaborate with this project and integrate APT in
Red Hat ASAP ?

P.S. If there were voting system in RH bugzilla, this bug would have high rating :)

Comment 4 Adrian Likins 2003-01-21 03:39:32 UTC

apt doesn't have many of the features RHN needs, so it's
not a replacement for up2date. 

If you want the package added, the place to file
a report is against "distribution"

Untill APT supports the features RHN needs, this
bug is closed.

Comment 5 Warren Togami 2003-01-21 04:10:34 UTC

I'm currently working on package GPG checking for apt amongst other features. 
Could you please provide a list of features needed for RHN?

Comment 6 Mantas Kriaučiūnas 2003-01-23 09:04:00 UTC

I reported a bug against "distribution" as you told - see bug# 82542

Comment 7 Mantas Kriaučiūnas 2003-01-24 14:46:20 UTC

Reh Hat developers should talk more with each other:

from bug bug# 82542:
 Bill Nottingham on 2003-01-23 18:03 <notting> wrote:
>"APT is like up2data. (sic)"
>Exactly. If there are features missing from up2date that you'd like, please file
>them against enhancement requests against up2date or RHN.

Warren Togami <warren> on 2003-01-20 23:10 wrote:
>I'm currently working on package GPG checking for apt amongst other features. 

There is a GPG checking posibility in Debian - see: 
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-us/debsig-verify.html

APT in Debian works correctly with debsig, and as I know rpm in Red Hat has
signature checking possibility. APT on RH uses rpm, then maybe there are no
necessity to change apt4rpm ?

Comment 8 Adrian Likins 2003-01-24 20:49:04 UTC

>Exactly. If there are features missing from up2date that you'd like, please file
>them against enhancement requests against up2date or RHN.

I'll all about feature requests. Lets hear em (in seperate bug
reports please).

Basically, apt doesn't do a lot of the RHN related stuff
that up2date does. I have no plans to add them to APT. 
If someone else does, that might be cool. But until
that happens, APT isn't a drop-in replacement for
up2date (or vice versa). So since I can't replace
up2date with APT, this bug is closed.

As mentioned above, if there are useful apt
features missing from up2date, file a enhancement
bug report for them. They may get added ;->

Comment 9 Adrian Likins 2003-01-24 20:55:48 UTC

> Could you please provide a list of features needed for RHN?

quick list:

rhnsd support
support for registering systems to RHN
support for uploading hardware info
"action" support
support for rhn channels
a simple gui
full dep resolution support (inc conflicts, file deps, obsoletes, etc)