FC1 support is ours...

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 19:12, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 14.09.2004 schrieb Eric Rostetter um 16:40:
> 
> > > Eric, reading your requirement for information about yum and apt and
> > > update on FC1 I can say, that yum works the same as the yum from Fedora
> > > Legacy for RH9. Did you expect something different?
> > 
> > Well, for one, we don't need to have them install a 3rd party yum, since
> > it is in FC1, right?  So the installation instructions will be different.
> > Is it installed by default as a standalone program, or not?  How about apt?
> > Is it in the standard paths?  Does it run as a service by default? Does it
> > include scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ for auto updates?  Or a cron job?
> 
> yum and up2date are installed by default on FC1 systems. They come with
> a baisc configuration pointing to the Redhat main server (which was the
> reason for a lot of problems and why I wrote the article earlier this
> year). So both tools work with yum repositories and you just have to
> configure them with /etc/yum.conf and /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to let
> them point to the new Fedora Legacy mirror servers. up2date is capable
> to handle apt repositories as well. 

I'd recommend not relying on up2date with apt repositories as up2date's
apt repository support is far from perfect, many installations fail with
bogus directory conflict errors:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106123

> > 
> > Sure you can.  Is it part of FC1?  What's the package name?
> 
> No, apt is not part of Fedora _Core_ 1.
> 
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc1/apt/
> http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/apt-0.5.15cnc6-0.fdr.11.1.i386.rpm
> http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1048
> 
> These are the 3 packaged apt RPMs certainly used by those feeling
> uncomfortable with yum or up2date on FC1. Each RPM comes with a
> different default setup.
> 
> If I may do a suggestion, then contact the packagers and let them adjust
> their apt RPMs to handle the future Fedora Legacy locations for FC1. I
> could imagine they would do with favour.

For fedora.us apt package this is a simple matter of just adding the
relevant fedora-legacy mirrors to the default repository/mirror list
files hosted on fedora.us server and telling people to rerun 'apt-get
mirror-select' to enable updates from FL. For others either the users
need to add the repositories themselves or the packages need to be
modified. 

	- Panu -