apt as front-end to up2date

[William Hooper]

Timothy Murphy said:
> William Hooper wrote:
>
>
>>> I think up2date is a yum front end.
>>>
>>
>> No, it's not.
>>
>
> I asked the same question elsewhere;
> apologies if I missed the reply. But Fedora Tracker
> <http://www.fedoratracker.org/>
> explicitly says in the first sentence on its home page:
> ===============================================
> The Fedora Project is a free distribution of the Linux operating system,
> which uses the RPM  package management system. RPMs can be downloaded and
> installed using the apt and yum tools or with Red Hat's up2date utility,
> which can serve as a frontend to either.
> ===============================================
>
>
> You are saying, if I understand you correctly,
> that all the above means is that you can access yum repositories with
> up2date.

Correct.

> I must say I find the wording slightly misleading in that case.

I agree.  Perhaps you can send a note to the maintainer and have them
clarify it.

-- 
William Hooper