[maemo-developers] Porting Yum to N900?

[From: Christopher Intemann]

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.Hynes at 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
>
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