While there is no 'need' to have yum installed, at least on some of my x86 based ubuntu boxes I have found it useful to have, and seem to recall installing various packages using yum under Ubuntu. I do not recall running into any dependency issues, but it was a while ago that I did this. It does show up nicely in my cache on my x86 based ubuntu machines, and I've installed it using apt, but I don't see any way of doing that (yet) on the N900.
As to waiting for MeeGo to be available for the N900, that may be a good while yet, and for most people it may be a wise idea to wait, but I always enjoy looking for ways to push the envelope. Aldon -----Original Message----- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of Christopher Intemann Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:57 PM To: maemo-developers Subject: Re: Porting Yum to N900? Since Maemo is still based on Debian, there is actually no need to have yum installed even though there seems to exist a port to Debian/x86: <snip> apt-cache search yum yum - Advanced front-end for rpm </snip> However, I really don't know how yum would handle missing dependencies, which it will find in any case, since even installed libs will probably not be registered in the rpmdb, nor would a rpm -initdb command help. Therefore rpms can probably only be installed on Debian by either using rpm -f or double install the dependent files as rpm as well. Just my thought, though, I never tried to mix both deb and rpm, but I'd like to know as well... maybe it is possible to create a rpm DB from the deb DB, but I hardly doubt that. I'd rather wait for MeeGo becoming available for the N900 and having switched to rpm than polluting my device with packages from different architectures, though. Cheers, Chris On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Aldon Hynes <aldon.hy...@orient-lodge.com> wrote: Personally, I'm agnostic in the rpm v. deb wars. Most of my boxes end up supporting apt and I use that most of the time, but I've used yum at times as well and from my perspective they both seem fine. That said, I don't see yum as an available package on the N900. Has anyone ported it? Does anyone have any RPM packages for the N900? Personally, instead of arguing back and forth, I'd like to see this made available. I like giving users choices and I'd love to see yum as a viable choice on the N900 My two cents. Aldon _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
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