2007/2/22, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Praveen A wrote:
Does the Fedora/Suse/Mandrake official repositories support apt-rpm?
Depends on what you mean by "support". I cant speak for SUSE and
Mandrake. If you mean commercial support, no. Fedora is entirely
non-commercial at this point. If you are asking whether apt-rpm exists
in the repository and whether developers would fix bugs, add features
etc, yes.
repository or upgradability. One is amount of volunteers and community
and another is a combination of policy and adherence to it helped by
people, infrastructure and tools mostly in that order. A apt-get like
tool is the easier part to replicate in any distribution.
metadata expire setting in yum.conf. Man pages of yum and yum.conf hasThats what I said in my previous mail, sane defaults. Do you expect the
more details. It just avoids running the necessity to run the equivalent
of apt-get update manually in its default setting.