On Thu, Feb 12, 2004, Thomas Lotterer wrote:
> > 5. Will OpenPKG work with apt-get (i.e. we setup our own repository and
> > use apt on our remote hosts to grab their appropriate updates)?
> >
> We tried and failed. Besides some technical difficulties we found that
> apt-get seems to work only good with binaries which violates OpenPKG
> philosophy preferring building from source. I'm not sure if we can ever
> get this to work properly.
Yes, I was unable to get it running for "from source building", but if
you build binary packages on a master machine, then you can pretty well
deploy them with APT on hundrets of target machines. For binary
installations APT worked fine for me.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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