Re: apt-rpm supported?

"Michael P. Soulier" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Organization Mitel Networks Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 06/11/03 Panu Matilainen did say:

> 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.

    Ok, thanks. 

    Odd. I only looked into Fedora in the first place to use apt-rpm.
I'm quite surprised to hear that it's not yet officially supported. As a
long-time Debian user, it made me feel very comfortable on an rpm-based
distro. 
    Any good comparisons of the two? Can I install based on pathname,
libname in yum? Is the search facility as good as "apt-cache"? 

    Cheers,
    Mike

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