Apt-rpm for RedHat users and others

Ok this is nothing big, nothing new it's just a short collection with links and stuff about the apt port for rpm.  Most of this stuff is for RedHat user cause I've to work with RedHat in the office. All of the rpms I've build are in productional use on two servers and a few clients, anyway I won't provide any warranty for anything. So be sure that you know what you're doing!
Whenever you've questions, suggestions or you've found a bug or a problem relatet to my stuff feel free to write me a mail sven@timegate.de

Be aware that this website is essentially dead!

A big "Thank You" goes out to Gustavo Niemeyer for his work on aptrpm, to Matthias Saou for his work with freshrpms.net and all others who helped to make apt more usefull ;) 

What's new?

2006-05-05 - Again a new home for AptRpm
Now with it's own second-level domain: http://apt-rpm.org/

2006-04-25 - A new home for AptRpm
Panu gave AptRpm a new Home with a page: http://apt-rpm.laiskiainen.org/

Links

Here are a few links providing you with usefull information about apt-rpm
The NEW AptRpm Homepage - http://apt-rpm.org/
apt4rpm project homepage at SourceForge.net - http://apt4rpm.sf.net
The OLD AptRpm Homepage - http://moin.conectiva.com.br/AptRpm
The mailman listinfo page for the apt-rpm mailinglist - http://distro.conectiva.com.br/mailman/listinfo/apt-rpm/
freshrpms for your RedHat system with apt sources - http://freshrpms.net/
Fedora Legacy Project providing legacy sec fixes for EOL RedHat Distris http://www.fedoralegacy.org
Gustavos new package mangement project superseeding apt-rpm SMART package management

Distro information

RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9

Nothing new so far, I'm not planning to provide rpms cause Matthias Saou from http://freshrpms.net/ provides fresh and up2date 0.5.xcncx Packages.
Take also a look at http://www.fedoralegacy.org they provide rpms and security updates.

Conectiva Linux 10

Someone asked for a sources.list entry on a fast european mirror, so here is the one I use for my CL 10 boxes:
rpm [cncbr] ftp://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/conectiva 10/i386 001 002 003 extras
rpm [cncbr] ftp://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/conectiva/atualizacoes 10/i386 updates

SuSE Linux 9.1 and some older

On ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ you can find several apt enabled archives for the SuSE Linux Distribution including add-on rpm packages like apt-rpm and the whole http://packman.links2linux.de/ packages.
An Apt-rpm binary for SuSE 9.1 can be found here:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.1-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/
I use the following sources.list entry on my SuSE Linux 9.1 system:
rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.1-i386 update security base packman packman-i686

 Note: With this sources.list entry and apt-rpm it's easy to upgrade your Personal Download Edtion to a full (excluding closed source apps) SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional.

For all other SuSE 9.x distributions you can find apt-rpm binarys from Richard if you replace the "9.1" in the URL with your version. Hope that helps you a little bit kids. ;)

What I've done

I unpacked the latest apt rpm from the Conectiva Linux snapshot tree and modified the "BuildRequires" in the spec file so that the package names for the required packages fit for the RedHat rpms. For example the popt-devel package from Conectiva is included into the package popt on a RedHat system. As a special bonus I've included my sources.list file with a few freely avaible apt archives for RH 7.3.

The new spec file for the 0.5.5cnc6 release is mostly taken from Matthias Saou
So not a big deal =)
BTW: Conectiva Linux is very nice Brasilian Linux Distribution and they're using apt by default :)

Tips & Tricks

apt-server-selber-bauen.txt - A short german howto build your own apt-rpm enabled ftp/http/file archiv
Aptify your CDs - Howto build your own CDs enabled for the use with apt-rpm and apt-cdrom
Erzeugen von mit apt-rpm nutzbaren CDs - A german translation of the "Aptify your CDs" article published by the great people from www.pro-linux.de