Re: apt -> smart migration howto?

Axel Thimm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:30:37PM -0500, Edward Rudd wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:49 +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
> >    I believe I've set smartpm on my box now OK (although I'm not sure I've got 
> > the definitions of the channels right;  I copied ATrpms, and they work but I 
> > can't see what each 'type' of channel actually represents ('yum like', or 'apt 
> > like', etc.).
> 
> I believe the preferable  metadata format for smart is the RPM-MD (the
> one that yum 2.2 and greater uses I believe).

Unofficially it is apt's format. It is also faster, as it skips all
the XML parsing. That's why it's the default at ATrpms' configs.

Officially any format is as good as the other (but yum20 is not
supported at all).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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