apt-config broken dependency?

[Matthias Saou]

Frank Cusack wrote :

> Just tried to get freshrpms going for FC6.  I want to use apt, just
> because
> 
> - I like it :-)
> - I'm used to it (no matter how simple yum may seem at first, it's
>   obvious as time goes on I will have to invest the time to learn
>   more yum details than I care to invest the time in)
> - My other systems use apt
> 
> My point being, "use yum instead" isn't a really good answer for me.
> 
> OK, so the problem is that the apt package requires apt-config, however
> there is no apt-config package.  I found that FC3 was the last apt package
> that doesn't have an apt-config dependency.  Of course the apt-config
> *program* is part of the apt package, but this doesn't meet the dependency.
> 
> Where am I supposed to get an apt-config package?  To work around it I
> just created an empty apt-config package, but ISTM this should be supplied
> by freshrpms.
> 
> Also, <http://ayo.freshrpms.net/> says to look at the latest sources.list
> by going to <http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/branches/rpms/matthias/apt/>
> but the files there seem way out of date.  (It was of course easy to
> create a correct sources.list, just pointing out that the link may be old.)

OK, so I'll skip the "you should really be using yum unless you really
have needs that only apt can fulfill" ;-P That said, you really should
have run "yum install apt" since it would have grabbed apt and its
default configuration, which are in the official Extras repository now,
not in freshrpms.net. From there, you'll just need to create the proper
file in apt.source.d to get freshrpms.net enabled.

This might be longer than simply running "yum --help" and looking at
the "usage:" line... oops :-)

Matthias

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