apt vs yum

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Fri Oct 17 03:08:02 UTC 2003


On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Mark Derricutt wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:06:07 +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> 
> > yum is a lot easier to setup on the server end. Hopefully this has been
> > improved for apt lately, setting up the directory hierarchy for it was not
> > trivial last time I tried it.
> 
> Speaking of yum server setups, anyone know of any HOWTO guides on setting
> up a yum repository?   I've got a few rpms I'm building and was thinking
> of apt-ifying, but wouldn't mind checking out yum...

Put the files in a directory accessible to yum, cd to that directory and
run "yum-arch ." as root. 

How's that for a mini HOWTO?? :-)

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