to yum or apt

[Toralf Lund]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:25 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Richard Emberson wrote:
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>>>In the past I've used synaptic (which uses apt). Now that I've just 
>>>upgraded to
>>>FC4, the question I've got is should I switch over to use the Yum 
>>>Extender?
>>>Will packages available to yum users also be available to apt users?
>>>Does yumex assure that all dependencies are satisfied before doing an 
>>>install?
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>>Haven't tried yumex (yet), just plain yum, but that does make sure 
>>everything is right wrt. dependencies etc.
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>Yes; in fact yum doesn't have provide options to break dependencies,
>unlike rpm itself.
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>>Apart from that, the way I understand it, apt and yum now use exactly 
>>the same "repository" data, i.e. a yum-enabled distribution directory 
>>will also work with apt and vice versa. If it uses the current 
>>repository format, that is; there used to be different, incompatible 
>>formats, then both tools were updated to support a common standard.
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>I've not heard of any version of apt that can use repo data from any
>version of yum.
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>Up2date though, can handle old and new yum metadata plus apt metadata.
>Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?
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No, I'm thinking of

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/

As you can see, what you call "new yum metadata" is not really that; 
it's more like "new common metadata", i.e. a format that supposed to be 
common to yum, apt, up2date and some others, too.

Now, I assumed that the new format is supported in current apt clients 
as well as yum, but I haven't actually tested.

- Toralf