Smart package manager (was Re: Making update functionality more usable (Was: Re: What next?))

[Chris McDonough]

Hard to say, as I don't have a machine on which to test that multilib
actually works, but the docs indicate that some thought has been put
into it:

- There's a special RPMNameProvides class that must be used
  to provide the package name itself together with the package
  version and the architecture appended. We must use a special
  class here to be able to match RPMObsoletes against
  package names only, since that's the way RPM expects it to
  happen. Appending the architecture is necessary for
  multilib handling of upgrades. Notice that RPM packages
  already provide the name/version explicitly, so instead
  of just adding a new provides, it's usually necessary
  to catch the existent provides and change the class/append
  the arch when matching the package name/version.


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:51 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
> > Hmm.  
> > 
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 20:29 +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> > 
> >>1. I'd like to add smart install to Extras.
> >>
> >>- It's written by the author of Synaptic and principal maintainer of 
> >>apt-get for RPM
> >>- Its a replacement for yum / apt-get / up2date / synaptic / etc.
> >>- It has both a CLI and GUI interface.
> >>- The GUI version is GTK2, and looks exactly like Synaptic (oddly enough 
> >>being written by the same author).
> >>- It works with Yum metadata repositories.
> >>- Its faster than yum and apt-get as it downloads from multiple sources 
> >>simultaneously.
> > 
> > 
> > It's written in Python, too!  Very nice.  Thanks for the tip...
> 
> Does smartpm support multilib yet?
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>