[WBEL-users] Hello everybody!!!

Jamey Fletcher jamey@beau.org
Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:05:01 -0600


W. Chris Shank wrote:
> I'm definitely interested in an apt repository for Whitebox.

>>Is anyone else interested or planning on using apt with whitebox?
>>I'll probably end up recompiling a bunch of programming, scientific,
>>and math software for whitebox anyway, and if someone here would find
>>that useful we can work on it together.  Even something as simple
>>as providing an apt-get mirror would help if there's a bunch of
>>apt users.

>>  Ed

I think it's possible for a file store to be both a yum and an apt repository 
- I just think John just picked one that worked (I think it was that yum is 
closer to being able to randomly round-robin servers than apt is).  One of the 
mirrors might want to aptify themselves, perhaps?