Fedora's mid-life crisis -- YUM v. APT v. SmartPM

Gian Paolo Mureddu gmureddu at prodigy.net.mx
Mon Aug 6 04:14:37 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram escribió:
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, last time I checked, Apt had _not_ addressed multi-architecture.
>> Anything Debian-based is still using chroot for i386 support.
>
> That isn't true. Apt-rpm (not Apt itself) has support for multi lib 
> and works with repomd format used by Yum. It is maintained by the same 
> person in Red Hat, Panu who maintains RPM now. No less.

And that almost proves my point in the earlier message (I should have 
waited to see this message and post right here... I apologize for being 
hasty.

>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/Apt
>
> The current story is that Red Hat folks either officially or 
> volunterily are involved with RPM, yum, apt-rpm and a port of Adept to 
> Fedora. Amusing?
>
> Rahul
>




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