Will apt be in FC3?
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 25 00:23:14 UTC 2004
Mike Fedyk said:
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> (and since it's just receiving the header portion of the rpm, it isn't
> compressed)
Yes they are.
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> 3. you don't need to create the indexes for yum that apt requires on
> the server side
Yes you do.
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> What do we end up with in the end? A lot of development spent on yum to
> put what's already in apt in yum, and with competing index formats.
Which is why effort is being put into the common metadata format.
> Apt has repository priorities, and AFAICT, yum does not.
Yes it does.
> So "Will apt be in FC3"?
I doubt it. It's in Fedora Extras, so who cares.
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William Hooper
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