On 09/13/2009 10:39 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > 2009/9/12 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 09/13/2009 03:17 AM, suvayu ali wrote: >> >>> >>> Does it use rpm as the back end? I thought synaptic is an exclusively >>> dpkg/apt-get front end. >> >> It uses apt-rpm in Fedora. >> > > Forgive my ignorance here Rahul, but does that mean apt-rpm does what > yum would do? Would it work with the usual set of the repositories for > fedora? And if I use synaptic do I still get to use yum on the command > line? All of this, yes. apt-rpm doesn't read comps.xml and doesn't understand yum groups as a result however. > I also came across the home page for apt-rpm[1], it seems the project > has been abandoned. An article on wikipedia[2] says the lead developer > has moved on to develop smart, which he considers as the successor to > apt-rpm. It is currently maintained by Panu who is also the primary upstream developer of RPM itself. Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
