On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:22:53AM -0600, greg wm wrote:
> i have used smart successfully to downgrade httpd to a previous version
> by setting up a channel for /var/cache/yum.  but, trying to go further,
> 
> it seems smart is unable to see repositories unless they are on the
> local disk.
> 
> i have a fresh install of whitebox linux 4 (rhel4), onto which i've
> updated yum and rpm and installed smart:
> 
> 
> ============================================================================
>     Package                 Arch       Version          Repository    Size
> 
> =============================================================================
>    Installing:
>     smart                   i386       0.40-23.el4.at   at-e-stable 569 k
>    Installing for dependencies:
>     libbeecrypt6            i386       4.1.2-8_9.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>  95 k
>     librpm4.4               i386       4.4.1-22_49.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>       943 k
>     medley-package-config   i386       103-1.el4.at     at-e-stable  11 k
>     python24                i386       2.4.1-2_8.el4.at  at-e-stable 
> 5.6 M
>     pythonabi               i386       2.3.4-1.el4.at   at-e-stable 1.7 k
>     rpm-python24            i386       4.4.1-22_6.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>     93 k
>     rpmforge-release        i386       0.2-2.2.el4.rf   dries-e     15 k
>     sqlite-devel            i386       3.2.2-1          CentOS_base 408 k
>    Updating for dependencies:
>     libselinux              i386       1.23.10-1.99_3.el4.at 
> at-e-stable        67 k
>     libselinux-devel        i386       1.23.10-1.99_3.el4.at 
> at-e-stable        98 k
>     net-snmp                i386       5.1.2-11.EL4.6   CentOS_base 491 k
>     net-snmp-perl           i386       5.1.2-11.EL4.6   CentOS_base 160 k
>     popt                    i386       1.10.1-22_49.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>        63 k
>     rpm                     i386       4.4.1-22_49.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>       579 k
>     rpm-build               i386       4.4.1-22_49.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>       518 k
>     rpm-devel               i386       4.4.1-22_49.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>       1.3 M
>     rpm-libs                i386       4.3.3-11_nonptl  CentOS_base 782 k
>     rpm-python              i386       4.4.1-22_49.el4.at  at-e-stable 
>        97 k
> 
> yum can see pachages:
> 
>    # yum list bogofilter
>    ...
>    Available Packages
>    bogofilter.i386                          0.96.6-3.el4.at at-e-stable
> 
> but smart can't:
> 
>    # smart query --show-channels bogofilter
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - Base (release)' 
> detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - Released Updates 
> (updates)' detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - Released Updates 
> (sl-updates)' detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - Base (sl-release)' 
> detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - Dries' repo 
> (dries)' detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - Dag's repo (dag)' 
> detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - ATrpms testing 
> (atrpms-testing)' detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - ATrpms bleeding 
> (atrpms-bleeding)' detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    New channel 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - i386 - ATrpms (atrpms)' 
> detected.
>    Include it? (Y/n):
> 
>    Loading cache...
>    Updating cache...
> 
>    error: 'bogofilter' matches no packages
> 
> the channel files are as installed by medley-package-config-103-1.el4.at
> 
> what could be wrong?

smart requires you to actively tell it to go get the data like so

smart update

Then you will start seeing the packages and be able to install/upgrade etc.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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