Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 26 09:53:34 UTC 2005


Kam Leo wrote:
>>You're missing the point. At some time, someone, for whatever reason
>>(e.g. upgrade from FC3 to FC4 but forget to update repos in smart
>>config) will point smart at a set of repos for an older distribution.
>>The question is: what will happen as a result of that? Hopefully nothing
>>too bad!
>>
>>Paul.
>>--
>>Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
>>
> 
> A good reason why the release version should not be hard -coded in the
> config files.

True, but somebody's eventually going to do this for whatever reason, 
and so the question remains... what will smart do when this happens?

Paul.




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