On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > new repodata format) > IMO, this is more a matter of politics and willingness, but a technical > requirement. > > Technically, I don't see any need for apt to adopt yum's repodata > format. Politically, this requirement is introduced by RH not wanting to > add apt-repositories and fedora.us apparently being unable to set up > complete repositories. If apt-repositories are cleverly set up, the > additional overhead they introduce in addition to the original files > becomes more or less negligible. Well, generating repositories demands a lot of a system. Generating 3 different repositories (apt, old-yum, new-yum) is really becoming an issue and prevents me from releasing updates flexibly. If I have to wait 30 to 45 minutes before I can starting syncing with a mirror, I delay that sometimes until the next time I'm online which could be 24h later. You have to know that I refuse to work with passphrase-less keys, so signing and syncing is an interactive step and requires my attention. > BTW: Even SuSE is available with apt. I wonder why they don't have the > multilib issue - I guess they don't ship multilibs :) Afaik, they rename the packages. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
