Re: does fedoralegacy depend on fedora.us?

[Tres Seaver <tseaver zope com>]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 07 June 2004 11:26, Joe Pruett wrote:
>
> > since there still isn't an official apt or yum for fedora legacy on
> > rh9 boxes, we are instructed to use the fedora.us version.  further,
> > we are only instructed to add the fedoralegacy.org url to the
> > sources.list file and not to comment out the fedora.us urls (or the
> > macromedia ones in sources.list.d).  is this an oversight in the docs
> > (like not telling us to install the fedora legacy key)?  or are you
> > relying on the other rpms that fedora.us would install (10 packages
> > that i see via apt-get -s upgrade)? i have assumed this is an
> > oversight and not installed the fedora.us rpms, but clarification
> > would be good, as well as updating the docs.
>
>
> Oversight.  We absolutely do NOT depend on Fedora.us.  A 9 version of 
> yum is in QA mode, apt needs some love.

Why not just use the apt from freshrpms?


http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/SRPMS.freshrpms/apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.src.rpm

I guess you would want to tweak the sources.list to point to 
fedoralegacy, but otherwise I can't see any point in not reusing it. 
Actually, I would pull yum from there for RH9 as well.


http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/SRPMS.freshrpms/yum-2.0.4-1.rh.fr.src.rpm

Tres.
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