Repository conflicts and new smart package manager
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Sun Dec 5 14:11:17 UTC 2004
Hi there,
I'm very pleased to be able to announce you a new solution to manage
packages and repositories. The new Smart package manager is able to let
you use different repositories that were not designed to work together.
Which was a recurring complaint on this and many other mailinglists.
You can prioritize repositories or prioritize packages and Smart will
handle the conflicts and make a decision based on what's available. It
includes a command-line utility (smart) and a GUI that resembles synaptic
(smart-gui).
Smart was written by Gustavo Niemeyer from Conectiva (the same guy that
ported apt to rpm and caused the RPM repository revolution). I have made
Fedora Core 3 packages (smart and smart-gui) that you can install from apt
or yum or if you do not have my repository included, manually from:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/smart/
Smart fixes many of the problems we know with the current package
managers. There's a document that explains how it works, what it fixes and
includes screenshots for when you're interested but not convinced :) The
website is at:
http://www.smartpm.org/
(There are also packages for Fedora Core 3 on that website, but they don't
include a plugin to allow packages to add repositories automatically.)
My current packages come with 13 repositories preconfigured and enabled
by default with a preset priority for each. And it has been working very
well for me the last 24h.
If you do have problems, fixes or suggestions, let us know. Enjoy !
-- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
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