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Should we use apt v1 or apt v2 throuh the docs ?

Open svx opened this issue 10 years ago • 3 comments

Since 14.04 there is also apt v2 on Ubuntu, which is the new versions with a nicer ci, faster and shorter.

I want to avoid mixing them in the docs, so personally I use v2 since a long time, but I am never sure which one to use in the docs.

svx avatar Dec 02 '15 15:12 svx

We could avoid it all together by just saying "install X Y Z" see the official docs of your distribution (and point to some distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL...)

Does that make sense?

gforcada avatar Dec 02 '15 16:12 gforcada

Actually, now that I think a bit more on it, we are moving towards ansible, salt, and what not, so they already instrument these low-level tools, so even more of a reason to not talk about one or the other, but just point the package names you want to install...

my 0,2 cents (one for each comment :-)

gforcada avatar Dec 02 '15 16:12 gforcada

afaik, "apt" is available since Jessie (april 2015) on Debian, and since 14.04 on Ubuntu. I'd say it's safe to use on the 5.0 branch of the docs.

polyester avatar Dec 02 '15 17:12 polyester

Closing as won't fix. It's obsolete.

stevepiercy avatar Feb 05 '23 21:02 stevepiercy