On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 19:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > > Is it easier now to use apt to upgrade the OS? I'd really like to see > > this become a lot easier in future versions of FC. Has this been > > worked on? > > > Apt4RPM is unmainted by upstream developers who have switched to > Smartpm(.org). Wrong. apt4rpm is maintained (By Richard Bos and by me). Apt-rpm has has less attention than before, because the principal apt- rpm maintainer is the author of smart. That does not mean apt-rpm is unmaintained. It's just that a person's focus has changed. He just has released a new release, a couple of weeks ago. > So Fedora development is going to concentrate on > supporting a live upgrade, then yum is likely to be a better choice than > apt. True, except that yum has not yet reached a shape to be usable for "live updates". Ralf
