Re: FC3 and apt-get (apt-rpm)

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting David Eisenstein <deisenst gtw net>:

> There is some sentiment for getting rid of apt-get for FC3 and newer
> distros, especially in terms of the proposed yum.conf RPM package being
> proposed & prepared, "legacy-yumconf-....fc3.src.rpm", at
>      <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177966>.

I think this would be a Good Thing...

> This was discussed yesterday on IRC (irc.freenode.net channel #Fedora-
> Legacy).  Wondering how the general legacy users feel about that?

I for one agree.

> Will we continue supporting apt-get for the older distros?

I think we will have to for the RHL releases.  You could argue otherwise
for FC releases, since most of them come with YUM by default.

So I vote we keep yum and apt for RHL releases, and I'll defer for
FC releases.

> By the way, I don't see directions on using apt-get for FC2 on the
> <http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs> web-page, and I don't see directions
> for using yum for FC3 yet.

Someone running those dists has to write them.  I actually do have access
to a FC3 system, so I can do the FC3 stuff.  But I don't have any access
to FC1 or FC2, so someone else should do those.

>  Are we planning to update those docs?  I

Yes, but who will do it?  Volunteers?

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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