[WBEL-users] Switch over to APT

[Johnny Hughes]

> I've been running yum on WBEL for a fair while now, and I've basically
> given
> up on it -- It's slow, it doesn't permit me to terminate operations
> reliably
> on SIGINT, etc...  Essentially, for all that I'm sure it has its
> advantages,
> I don't like it much.
>
> I'd like to move my package management over to apt
> for WBEL (which otherwise I love).  Is this possible?  Are there apt
> repositories
> that are roughly equivalent to the Yum one?  Can the Yum DB even be
> migrated
> so that I'm not stuch with a useless collection of unknown rpms?

There is no APT or YUM DB ... they both use RPM.

There are also no APT repositories (that I know of) for WBEL ... although
it's not hard to make your own repository.

CentOS-4 (currently beta) will have APT metadata for the repositories, so
you will be able to use the apt client with it.  I don't think that apt
metadata will be supplied for CentOS-3.x in the future, but it might.