apt sources.list

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 09:18 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 20 March 2006 08:48, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > Please do _NOT_ drop apt. I have found it is superior to yum with
> > keeping my 7.3 box up-to-date.
> >
> > What I would like to see is to have certain tools, such as sendmail,
> > included as the newer releases have security fixes and are often better
> > than whatever was/is available with the distros.
> >
> > just my 2 cents worth.
> 
> Apt support will not be removed for RHL7.3.  However in later Fedora releases, 
> yum performance is quite a lot better.  If apt starts using the common 
> repodata, then apt support will reappear for those releases too.
> 
> As for new versions, that isn't something we'll do in the RHL space.  Within 
> Fedora there is an upstream (Fedora Project) tendency to use new releases, so 
> we may follow suite when low impact.  However something like sendmail is 
> pretty high impact IMHO.
> 

Yes. I have been building my own rpms but have no decent repository
where they could be offered. Have 8.13.4 currently running and 8.13.5 in
the queue.  If FL and/or FP could offer space, I would be willing to
share.

-- 
G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
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