Can't upgrade to Rawhide

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Dec 28 21:58:51 UTC 2005


Hi

>Yes, smart can also use yum repodata, just set up new channels of that type, 
>point it to the same urls you'll find in /etc/yum.repos.d/*-devel.repo.
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>http://labix.org/smart/faq#head-23a262be2555f1b386b7f8ca158010a49dd07ad3
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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. Whether its 
desirable or if its a improvement is debatable. Yum obviously is getting 
better integrated with Anaconda, system-config-packages and so on. Of 
course now that Smartpm is under review for Fedora Extras repository, 
you have the choice easily.

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