Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 09/13/2009 10:39 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
>> On 09/13/2009 03:17 AM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively
>>> dpkg/apt-get front end.
>>
>> It uses apt-rpm in Fedora.
>>
> 
> Forgive my ignorance here Rahul, but does that mean apt-rpm does what
> yum would do? Would it work with the usual set of the repositories for
> fedora? And if I use synaptic do I still get to use yum on the command
> line?

All of this, yes. apt-rpm doesn't read comps.xml and doesn't understand
yum groups as a result however.

> I also came across the home page for apt-rpm[1], it seems the project
> has been abandoned. An article on wikipedia[2] says the lead developer
> has moved on to develop smart, which he considers as the successor to
> apt-rpm.

It is currently maintained by Panu who is also the primary upstream
developer of RPM itself.

Rahul