On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 00:13, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:56:27PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Friday 24 October 2003 20:41, seth vidal uttered: > > > do both. > > > please. > > > > With the explaination you've given me on IRC, it makes sense to do them both. > > I was hoping to avoid the nightmares of maintaining an apt repot, but *shrug* > > (: > > Is this (that is, why you should aptify as well as yummify) explained > anywhere in writing? I'm having trouble finding an explanation > elsewhere... There is much work going on to make it so you can generate the metadata of a repository of packages only once, in one format and both yum and apt (among other tools) will be able to use that repository. I hope we can have the format available for mid Fedora Core 2 devel cycle. -sv