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.

[snip]
> 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.

-- 
William Hooper





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