apt+rpm HOWTO (preliminary version), von Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com>,
Alfredo Kojima <kojima@conectiva.com.br>
und Claudio Matsuoka <claudio@conectiva.com.br>,
bazar.conectiva.com.br/~godoy/apt-howto.
This document describes how to setup a machine as an apt client
or as an apt repository.
This document does not describes apt and its philosophy. We're
describing apt's port to RPM based systems (OK, some information on
how apt works is also supplied, but its not the scope of this
document to teach you everything about apt).
Freshmeat.net: An RPM port of APT, by Alfredo K. Kojima, in
Editorials - Saturday, December 2nd 2000 23:59 PDT,
freshmeat.net/articles/view/192.
Apt-rpm for RedHat users, von Sven "Hoaxter" Hoexter,
www.hoaxter.de/aptrpm.
Apt-rpm Server selber bauen, von Sven "Hoaxter" Hoexter,
www.hautu.de/content.php?id=34 [de].
Diese Anleitung soll kurz und buendig naeher bringen wie man sich
seine eigenen apt-rpm faehigen repository aufsetzt und pflegt.
Ich erklaere das ganze am Beispiel von RedHat 8.0 generell ist die
Anleitung aber fuer alle gaengigen rpm basierten Distributionen
gueltig.
Setup APT-RPM with Redhat distribution,
apt-rpm.xinus.net.
apt for rpm based distributions (a tool to convert an rpm repository
into an apt repository),
apt4rpm.sourceforge.net,
www.sourceforge.net/projects/apt4rpm.
Apt4rpm provides tools to create and maintain an apt repository.
The main tool is aptate which searches rpm repositories storing the
rpms in the correct apt component. If you're looking for the apt
client software, refer to the apt-rpm project.
At these pages an attempt is made to introduce the Advanced
Package Tool (APT), originally developed for the Debian Linux
distribution, to users of rpm based Linux systems. The intention is
to explain how to integrate/implement apt on an rpm based system.
For the details about the usage of apt itself one is referred to the
apt documentation, manual, howto, etc. References to it can be found
here.
APT has been ported from Debian to the rpm based distribution of
Conectiva. After the port completed succesfully, Conectiva now uses
APT as package management in their distribution. So why is apt4rpm
still needed, you may ask? It's not needed anymore for the Conectiva
distribution, but for all the other rpm based distributions. Apt
needs a defined package repository to work from, and if the
distribution you're using does not set up the APT repository on
their CD's, or download servers you must create the repository
yourself. This is where apt4rpm comes to rescue!
Matsuoka, Claudio, "Is it Time to Change RPM?", Freshmeat editorial,
Sep. 2000,
freshmeat.net/news/2000/09/16/969163199.html.
Hess, Joey, "A comparison of the deb, rpm, tgz, and slp package
formats", 2000,
www.kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.