Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I know for that, but SmartPM just hanged when I was tryed to upgrade the
system into Rawhide. Here's my channel:
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# Name: Development
# URL:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/
[fc-dev]
name = Development
baseurl =
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/core/
type = rpm-md
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Smartpm can use yum metadata but its not just a frontend and its
dependency resolves works very differently. Most notably it attempts to
downgrade packages on occasions to resolve dependencies automatically
which isnt what RPM is optimally designed or tested to do.
I didn't know for that, thanks.
Whether its
desirable or if its a improvement is debatable. Yum obviously is getting
better integrated with Anaconda, system-config-packages and so on.
I read that Yum is the new dependency resolver for Anaconda, and
system-config-packages as well. I like Yum better because it provides
some features I've never seen on Apt or Smart (package repackaging and
installing packages locally - 'yum localinstall'). But it is slower than
Apt and Smart, for now :-/
Of
course now that Smartpm is under review for Fedora Extras repository,
you have the choice easily.
Well, I'm not some SmartPM fan or something, I was just playing with it.
Seems nice tool. Or it isn't as it looks like?
Cheers!
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Igor Jagec