[SLL] Say, does CentOS have an accessible /etc/apt/sources.list like thing I can actually look at?

Francois Caen frcaen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 18:37:18 PST 2008


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Jay Scherrer <jay at scherrer.com> wrote:
>  You might be able to get a copy from freshrpms.net, or build the source.
>  However; CentOS is automatically linked with yum repositories. The
>  newest CentOS 5,1 is built around RHEL 4 or 5 I presume.

CentOS and RHEL version numbers are in sync: 5 = 5

> Wouldn't it be
>  great if you could yum install "apt-get" or vice versa?

Not really. Yum has emerged as the rpm management tool. The different
combinations emerged (eg apt4rpm) and natural selection has occurred
and is now complete.
-- 
Francois Caen


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