[WBEL-users] Apt support WBEL3.0 OS and update repositories

[Edward Rudd]

Actually those repositories started apt, and then provided yum support.
I think it would be beneficial to support both.  I will start putting
together a script to aptify the repositories and submit it to the list
sometime this week.

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 21:30, Jamey Fletcher wrote:
> Edward Rudd wrote:
> 
> > Has apt support been looked into for the WBEL repositories? I would be
> > willing to setup a script to update the apt files..  I am currently
> > working on creating RPMS for missing packages in EL (midnight commander,
> > ncftp, and more) and will be putting them in an apt (yeah and probably
> > yum too) repositories.
> 
> The list was asked early in the RC2 cycle about whether Yum or Apt was 
> the choice, since up2date does both - and the concensus was to yummify 
> the repositories...
> 
> I wouldn't think it would take much to aptify them, especially since the 
> resources I've seen for other RHEL extra repositories seem to be going 
> to apt (Dag, FreshRPMs, AltRPMs, etc.)
> 
> Go for it, really - I'm not sure I can convince John to mirror the 
> aptification onto the primary server.
> 
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