I love the cooperative mood in the linux community seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:59, Vincent wrote: >> It appears the apt, yum buzz words are catching on, soon everyone will be using apt/yum >> instead of up2date. I know RedHat just got done developing a package manager but I >> think apt-like features need to be implemented cause people will get what they want, it might >> aswell be Redhat so maybe they can get a buck or two from the honest people. > >redhat-config-packages and yum shouldn't have any trouble converging. > >They both use rpm+python to do all their work - it would just be a >matter of making yum read from the locations that r-c-p supports and >making r-c-p support yum-repos. > >the information contained is identical - yum even uses the comps.xml >file now for groups so that part is done. > >If someone at red hat is interested I'd love to talk more about it. >it would mean existent repositories could be useful with r-c-p and >mirror-admins wouldn't need to have multiple types of data eating up >space for holding the package-info. > >-sv (one of the guys who wrote yum) > > > > > -- Brian Johnson * This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) *
