status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Ralf Ertzinger]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:33:29PM +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:

> You can use the sha/md5sum digest info to match between the rpms
> installed in rpmdb (/var/lib/rpm/) and the rpm packages from the
> repositories. This will only work if the repos still have the older
> rpms listed though.
> Is smart storing addon information in its own database?

smart employs scoring, on a package and on a repository basis. Score
external repositories lower than FC/FE, and you will get no replacements
of Core/Extra packages.

Yes, there are cases where this does not work as intended.