Am Mo, den 13.06.2005 schrieb Robin Mordasiewicz um 16:46:
Apt isn't written to be able to resolve multiple library arch dependencies.
All development on apt for rpm from Mandriva is stopped, the maintainers are now doing SmartPM ( http://smartpm.org ). Not sure how well (or if) SmartPM does multilib arches.
That is why apt is not in the CentOS-4 base as a package manager and why there is no x86_64 apt package (in CentOS extras) or x86_64 apt repo in the tree. ( http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/apt/ )
:( thanks. too bad. I was growing fond of apt. I forgot what RPM-hell was.
Is it just me or is yum not nearly as capable at sorting out dependencies across multiple repositories. I am using dag, dries, atrpms, and kde-redhat rpms and with apt on a i386 system I never had to manually do anything, but yum will just not sort things the same way.
If there are package conflicts yum will stay them open and inform the user. You will have to decide manually which repository you want to give the preference.
Alexander