does fedoralegacy depend on fedora.us?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Thu Jun 17 16:46:58 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 22:41, Tres Seaver wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Monday 07 June 2004 11:26, Joe Pruett wrote:
> > 
> >>since there still isn't an official apt or yum for fedora legacy on
> >>rh9 boxes, we are instructed to use the fedora.us version.  further,
> >>we are only instructed to add the fedoralegacy.org url to the
> >>sources.list file and not to comment out the fedora.us urls (or the
> >>macromedia ones in sources.list.d).  is this an oversight in the docs
> >>(like not telling us to install the fedora legacy key)?  or are you
> >>relying on the other rpms that fedora.us would install (10 packages
> >>that i see via apt-get -s upgrade)? i have assumed this is an
> >>oversight and not installed the fedora.us rpms, but clarification
> >>would be good, as well as updating the docs.
> > 
> > 
> > Oversight.  We absolutely do NOT depend on Fedora.us.  A 9 version of 
> > yum is in QA mode, apt needs some love.
> 
> Why not just use the apt from freshrpms?

It lacks things like GPG-signature verification, automated updating of
kernels and various other nice things that are in fedora.us apt (the
current one for FC1 and FC2 that is)

	- Panu -





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