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