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Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Fri Jan 28 10:09:16 UTC 2005
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:36 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
> > Best damn depsolver that I've ever seen, does all the
> > (imho) useful
> > stuff that apt does (and yum/up2date do not, at least not yet, like
> > back-tracking),
>
> Does smartrpm have equivalents to
>
> apt-get source
> apt-get build-dep
>
> These are the features I like about apt and which make apt interesting
> to me.
I know Gustavo showed interest in adding this kind of functionality. It
may depend on the back-end being used, some repo metadata does not support
source packages.
In the light of this discussion, it would be nice if Smart developped
mach/abe kind of functionality too. Especially since Smart's configuration
can be easily manipulated using smart on the commandline and it already
includes much of the infrastructure necessary.
> Another feature I am missing in both apt and yum is a usable
> --download-only operation.
> apt-get has "-d" but insists on its "package name mangling", (FC3's) yum
> doesn't support it all, I don't know about smartrpm.
smart upgrade --download
You also have 'smart download' if you just want to download a set of
packages by name/glob.
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