Re: apt-rpm supported?

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:03:49AM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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.

Do you have any apt configs for FC1 in those repos? Thanks!

> 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 -
> 
> 

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