[Fedora-legacy-list] (maybe OT) Why both aptify and yummify? (was Re: System)

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 00:13, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:56:27PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Friday 24 October 2003 20:41, seth vidal uttered:
> > > do both.
> > > please.
> > 
> > With the explaination you've given me on IRC, it makes sense to do them both.
> > I was hoping to avoid the nightmares of maintaining an apt repot, but *shrug* 
> > (:
> 
> Is this (that is, why you should aptify as well as yummify) explained
> anywhere in writing? I'm having trouble finding an explanation
> elsewhere...

There is much work going on to make it so you can generate the metadata
of a repository of packages only once, in one format and both yum and
apt (among other tools) will be able to use that repository.

I hope we can have the format available for mid Fedora Core 2 devel
cycle.

-sv