Repository conflicts and new smart package manager
Craig
cs007fc at wowway.com
Sun Dec 5 21:08:03 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:11 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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).
<snip>
> 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
Using synaptic caused me to receive size-mismatch errors. Just wanted to
let you.
Craig
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