On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:04, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:49, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > The updated version, hopefully ready for editorial, is available at > > Bugzilla #130125. Major issues: > > > > 1. I need someone to contribute sections on apt. I don't use it, only > > up2date with the yum backend. Note that the tutorial is purposely *not* > > designed to be a tutorial for how to use yum and apt. The only reason > > they are mentioned is in the context of providing a backend for up2date > > on both the server and the client side. As it stands, the tutorial > > fulfills its mission, but it does not cover the apt part, only yum. > > Oops, I just looked at your doc to see what you were talking about. Apt > does exactly the same thing as yum. You could just copy/paste the > information about yum into the apt section. It even has the same > drawback as you mention for yum. And to create a repository, you need to run: genbasedir --flat --bloat --bz2only \ --topdir=/top_level/dir sub_dir1 subdir2 subdir3 ... Forrest
