apt-rpm supported?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:20, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>     I was just looking at the download instructions at
> 
>     http://fedora.redhat.com/download/
> 
>     and it mentions up2date and yum for updating your install via
> RawHide. Is apt-rpm not supported for this, or is it just not mentioned?

Apt-rpm is not at least currently supported in Fedora Core, however
a) you can safely expect various mirrors to provide "apt-rpm enabled"
repositories of it, including www.fedora.us and freshrpms.net.
b) there's work going on to create a generic repository metadata format,
meaning in practise any depsolver supporting that can be used to access
any repository using that format, at which point there aren't
yum/apt-rpm/up2date/red-carpet repositories, they simply become "package
repositories" which you can access with your favorite client.

	- Panu -