Where's apt for core 4?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jul 27 14:25:51 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:18 -0400, Dan Burke wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:14:27 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:04 -0400, Dan Burke wrote:
> > > > I'm wondering if I missed out on something. Where is apt for C4?
> > >
> > > The apt package is in Extras. I've been told apt repos are available at
> > > freshrpms (I am using local apt repos).
> >
> > http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/4/i386/
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Note, however, that Apt-RPM is a dead end support-wise, and you are
> > encouraged to switch to Yum. Also see http://rpm.livna.org/ where it has
Livna is ill-advised.
> That sucks, I really like apt. But as long as I'm not forced to use
> up2date, it can't be that bad.
yum isn't as bad as up2date, but ... it still is way behind apt.
> I have all the servers at work using apt (over 30 servers). I see a
> nightmare in my future.
The work-around is to mirror the external repos and to build local apt
repos from it - That's what I am already doing.
Ralf
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