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Re: Bug: apt-get not working properly under SL 4.2
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Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Yep. And there are few more:
> 
> Giving that apt for rpm is not developped anymore ..
> since Mandrake took over Connectiva ...
> (plus it does not understand multilib archs like ia64/x86_64
> etc ..)
> 
> ... it is not likely such things will be ever fixed.
> 
> We at CERN start thinking about migrating to yum for
> next SLC version(s) (SLC 5 most likely)


I think it is interesting to mention here that Fedora Core 5 (currently under test 
release) moves to yum completely, and a new GUI front-end called pup (Package UPdater), 
which is being developed by them as far as I have understood, removing up2date etc.

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