[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Apt problems]

William M. Quarles walrus@bellsouth.net
Mon Nov 29 10:12:00 2004


Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

 > o@cmn37On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 16:54, William M. Quarles wrote:
 >
 >>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
 >> >
 >> > BTW, there are no tricks that I know of in generating the metadata
 >> >(what you call the headers) that apt uses. All the information comes
 >> > from the packages themselves, and that is determined from the way the
 >> > package is built (ie: the spec file, sources and patches).
 >>
 >>How do you generate the Yum header.info files?
 >
 > yum-arch -l NAME_OF_DIRECTORY

OK, I was just wondering because some people were talking about a 
program that could convert between Yum header files and APT metadata.  I 
was thinking that if you converted from the APT metadata to the Yum 
header filesthat might possibly explain why I was experiencing the same 
errors on both, but obviously that can't be the case.

Thanks,
William