Query about fc4 servers support for apt-get

[Gilboa Davara]

Apt has no bi-arch support.
As x86-64 requires both 32bit and 64bit libraries to be installed (e.g.
to run 32bit OpenOffice), yum must be used for x86-64.
(apt/Fedora doesn't support 64bit PPC)

Gilboa

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:33 +0200, Oliver Leitner wrote:
> well, servers...
> 
> if youre talking about 386 "servers", mr. Davara gave all answers i
> think.
> 
> if youre talking about x86_64 or true 64bit machine, i dont know if fc
> is yet that far, that they support all kinds of architectures.
> 
> but youre welcome to compile the packages and make your own mirror, i
> think they got a good documentation on that somewhere (sorry, i dont
> know it out of my mind...)
> 
> Greetings
> Oliver Leitner
> 
> On 10/20/05, Gilboa Davara <gilboada at netvision.net.il> wrote:
>         apt is fully supported by freshrpms. (Including
>         core/updates/extra
>         packages)
>         Only i386 is supported, though.
>         http://apt.freshrpms.net/
>         
>         Gilboa
>         
>         On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:42 +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote: 
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > I am using apt-get and synaptic to update and install rpms.
>         >
>         > I wanted to know if apt-get is supported by redhat/fedora
>         download
>         > servers, since I couldn't find one. All support only yum. 
>         >
>         > Thanking in advance.
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