Using rpm repository?

[Tim Webster]

redhat and debian have a different packaging approaches.

redhat packages are course than debian packages and a result there
is no one to one mapping. So I don't even know how to begin automatically 
mapping the rpm package requirments into deb dependences. The only solution
I can think of is sitting down and manually mapping these.
IMHO if you are going to do that kind of work, what not share the deb package
See debianplanet for details how to setup repositories. 

-tim

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:04:32 -0500, Edwin Sheldon
<esheldon at hungsquirrel.org> wrote:
> Greetings from a new Ubuntu user and mailing list subscriber.
> 
> I was wondering what steps need to be taken to get apt to accept rpm as
> a valid source type.  When trying to use an RPM repository I get the
> following error:
> 
> E: Type 'rpm' is not known on line 16 in source
> list /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> Edwin Sheldon
> 
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