Re: smart package mgr question?

On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:44, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;

I just ran smart pkg mgr on my FC5 lappy, and any cups I click on
claims it will downgrade 3 packages if I exec it. What the heck?
Yumex doesn't seem to have that problem.

Smart uses a different dependency resolving algorithm that offers to
downgrade packages automatically. RPM is not designed for downgrades and
Yum, Yumex, Pirut etc dont support this. Whether this is a advantage or
not is debatable.

Rahul

My point being that smart didn't show me a cups upgrade at all, only
downgrades, while yumex just got done with 168 megs of upgrades w/o any
apparent problems. Including cups and friends from whatever to
1.1.2-4.1-1.

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