On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 07:54 -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote:

Mike Stankovic wrote:

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--- Ralph Alvy ralvy@warpmail.net wrote:

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I see very clearly how yum accesses the CentOS repos when I look in

    /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

But I don't see any equivalent file in

    /etc/apt/sources.list.d

All I have in that directory are list files like

    dag.list
    dries.list
    freshrpms.list
    ...etc..

How does apt-get know where to look for CentOS repo stuff?

In mine $ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ centos.list rpmforge.list

Be aware though that some repos do not support apt4rpm

Hmmm...I see that I have the el4 version of apt installed. So I removed it and then installed the centos version. That gave me a centos.list. But then I did an apt-get update and upgrade and found that my dag.list caused apt to remove my centos.list, upgrading to the el4 version of apt again. I then renamed centos.list.rpmsave back to centos.list. Is this a problem?

It's not a problem, per se, it's just that Dag has a newer version of apt than the one in CentOS. You chose to install his version, it replaced the file.

It seems that apt-rpm development has been renewed.

CentOS will evaluate the new packages for stability and update our packages as appropriate. Remember, just because new packages exist does not mean they need to be rolled into an Enterprise distribution like CentOS. Nor does CentOS control what packages 3rd parties decide to use.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes