new up2date available (with apt/yum repo support)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Aug 13 13:28:32 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:17, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hans Deragon wrote:
> 
> > Well that shuts the apt/yum debate. :)  Now we have a GUI and CLI that 
> > supports both type of repositories.  Great, and thanks.
> 
> I'll try setting up a repository that has both types of
> metadata.  That way everybody can choose which mechanism
> they want to use for upgrading.

This is the reason we're working on a single format for the repository
metadata. Generating 2 or 3 or 4 metadata types is a nightmare for
mirror maintainers and simply wasteful.

-sv






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