Re: new up2date available (with apt/yum repo support)

[Adrian Likins <alikins redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:28:32AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:17, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hans Deragon wrote:
> > 
> > > Well that shuts the apt/yum debate. :)  Now we have a GUI and CLI that 
> > > supports both type of repositories.  Great, and thanks.
> > 
> > I'll try setting up a repository that has both types of
> > metadata.  That way everybody can choose which mechanism
> > they want to use for upgrading.
> 
> This is the reason we're working on a single format for the repository
> metadata. Generating 2 or 3 or 4 metadata types is a nightmare for
> mirror maintainers and simply wasteful.
> 

	And once we decide on the new repo format, it should be
fairly easy to support (if it sane, which it appears to be the
case so far). 

Adrian