On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 07:22 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 20 March 2006 03:19, Dag Wieers wrote: > > I'm including the fedora legacy project in this mail to see if they can > > provide empty repositories in advance so they can be included at all > > times. > > I'm toying w/ the idea of dropping apt support as of FC3. With the start of > multiple arches and with apt not being included in Fedora (but yum is), I'd > rather not deal with the long long metadata generation time, the hassle of > providing apt packages for each release and the nasty symlink tree I have to > create to be able to support it. Apt metadata creation will continue to > happen for the older RHL releases, and Fedoras up to 2 I do believe, but from > 3 on, I'd rather use the native updating tools provided with Fedora. Please do _NOT_ drop apt. I have found it is superior to yum with keeping my 7.3 box up-to-date. What I would like to see is to have certain tools, such as sendmail, included as the newer releases have security fixes and are often better than whatever was/is available with the distros. just my 2 cents worth. > > That said, I did create empty repos for FC4 and FC5, and will create one for > FC6 once that gets going. Hopefully by the time FC6 comes out, we'll be > moved over to using download.fedora.redhat.com as our master mirror and thus > all the rest of the Fedora mirror system. > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list -- G. Roderick Singleton <gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> PATH tech
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