On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:28:32AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:17, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hans Deragon wrote:
>
> > Well that shuts the apt/yum debate. :) Now we have a GUI and CLI that
> > supports both type of repositories. Great, and thanks.
>
> I'll try setting up a repository that has both types of
> metadata. That way everybody can choose which mechanism
> they want to use for upgrading.
This is the reason we're working on a single format for the repository
metadata. Generating 2 or 3 or 4 metadata types is a nightmare for
mirror maintainers and simply wasteful.
And once we decide on the new repo format, it should be
fairly easy to support (if it sane, which it appears to be the
case so far).
Adrian