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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437460919-16022010>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=437460919-16022010>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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=437460919-16022010>Aldon</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
maemo-developers-bounces@maemo.org
[mailto:maemo-developers-bounces@maemo.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Christopher
Intemann<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:57 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
maemo-developers<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Porting Yum to
N900?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>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:
<DIV>
<DIV><snip></DIV>
<DIV>apt-cache search yum</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>yum - Advanced front-end for rpm</DIV>
<DIV></snip></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Chris</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Aldon Hynes <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A target=_blank
href="mailto:Aldon.Hynes@orient-lodge.com">Aldon.Hynes@orient-lodge.com</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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.<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>My two
cents.<BR><BR>Aldon<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>maemo-developers
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