apt and smart support for RPM Fusion and Livna

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

(tofu fixed)

On 25.12.2008 21:33, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 19:45, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 23:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>>> Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>>>>> apt-rpm doesn't work in current Fedora anyways.
>>>>> To be more precise, command-line apt-rpm is completely broken in F10
>>>>> and higher, Synaptic already in F9.
>>>>>
>>>>> So if somebody cares strongly about apt, they'll have to fix apt first!
>>>>>
>>>>>         Kevin Kofler
>>>> Has a bug report been filed? Shouldn't be in blocked from the mirrors
>>>> till this problem is fixed?
>>> Bug was filed, and fixed in Rawhide. Now someone just has to backport it
>>> to F10
>> 
>> I'd go for backporting it to F8, and F9 as well. Apt was working just fine on 
>> both the Livna, and Freshrpms repos, until the transition to Rpmfusion, when 
>> everything hit the fan.
 > I'm sending this again, as it didn't seem to appear on the list,

It had afaics.

 > and it would
 > be nice to have apt support for accessing the rpmfusion repo's.

Well, do you want just want to let someone else do all the work to 
implement your wishes or are you actually willing to help getting what 
you want?

I don't want to discourage you with that statement/question. But there 
are likely hundreds of things people want RPM Fusion to do. That's okay. 
A lot of those things often get done sooner or later -- but most of the 
time (nearly always I'd say) it's done because somebody that is 
interested in a thing actually realizes it or at least helps someone 
else to realize it. That's how Open-Source-Projects like RPM Fusion work 
-- people only work on things they are interested in. It only happens 
rarely that somebody realizes something that someone else requested, 
without being interested in it itself.

CU
knurd