new up2date available (with apt/yum repo support)

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>:

> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 00:20, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Adrian Likins wrote:
> > 
> > > Most notable new feature is support for 3rd party
> > > apt and yum repositories. See the included
> > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file for info
> > > on how to configure them. 
> > 
> > How can we set up repositories with RPMS for apt and yum ?
> > 
> > I should put together a repository with some ham radio
> > applications ;)
> 
> 
> make a dir of rpms
> run yum-arch .
> in a directory above that dir.
> 
> that will generate a headers directory.
> 
> just make that dir available via http or ftp.
> 
> I don't know all the details for setting up an apt repo

Not really much more difficult than yum, except apt expects the directory names
to have a suffix like RPMS.os RPMS.updates and then run genbasedir on the
toplevel tree. For details see https://moin.conectiva.com.br/AptRpm/Repositories

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