Re: Testing apt packages for FC5

Dag Wieers <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user
Organization 3TI Web Hosting Services
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Neil Bird wrote:

> Around about 25/04/06 11:38, Dag Wieers typed ...
> > Please provide as much feedback as you can to the new apt-rpm mailinglist so
> > we can phase out apt support for the older distributions that support this
> > new apt.
> 
>   Is apt now getting a new lease of life, then?  I migrated to smart a long
> while back and haven't looked back, but should I be apting again?

We want to phase out the apt repo metadata support on repositories. This 
new apt supports the repomd format, so eventually publishing my packages 
will no longer take 50 minutes, but rather 35 minutes.

Apt is generally useful in an production environment where you still have 
EL2, EL3 and EL4 boxes around and you want a single tool to help you 
manage your systems.

Smart is nicer in general, but only supports recent distributions. 

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  [email protected],  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
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