Preupgrade Hacking

[Frank Murphy]

On 16/07/09 12:49, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Frank Murphy wrote:
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>> Can preupgrade be hacked to work with smart (instead of yum)
>> for testing purposes.
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> It's using entirely yum api calls, not system calls. So I'd expect that
> it CAN be modified to use smart, but it definitely cannot be modified to
> use smart trivially. Additionally, there are no guarantees that smart
> and anaconda will depsolve the same way and smart cannot run the yum
> plugins that anaconda runs.
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> Is there some reason you want to test it w/smart?
> 
> -sv
> 

No particular reason, just as a test for my own knowledge.

Frank