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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:21:31 +0000
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Re: yum-conf format
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To: Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> cc: Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> I'm all for keeping apt completely out of the release.  I don't know 
> about the SLC part, but for the SL part, when we push out updates, it's 
> now taking hours for SL 3.  And the majority of the time is building the 
> apt repositories.

why not use the new Apt ? it uses the rpm-metadata ( that yum uses ) for 
its backend stuff, and its functional on everything from RH7.3 to EL5.

- KB

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