Re: [SLUG] apt support in Mandrake 10.1 Official

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 15:59:30 EST


On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:10, Steven Buehler wrote:
> Mandrake 10.1 Official now includes support for apt-get (via the 'apt'
> package) as well as the urpmi tool.

Including the tool is half the battle.

> I'm the process of doing an apt-get dist-upgrade from Cooker.

So does this mean Mandrake is maintain APT for its repositories too?
If so, then that's the other half.

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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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