On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 19:30 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:48:01PM +0100, daniele favara wrote: > > > with smart pm there is already the possibility to select "channels" .. > > but i've never tested it .. > > > > http://labix.org/smart > > Those are basically equivalent of the multiple sources of apt. > Apt and urpmi has had this feature working for years. It is a rather > basic feature for any package manager. Even SuSE have realised that, I > believe.
I'd be using it more heavily in pdk now, except it doesn't yet have any notion of a source package. Otherwise I'd dispense with most of my channel handling infrastructure and rejoice greatly. Gustavo has done a nice job with his. Just last week I figured how to crawl under smart's covers and make it's depsolver tell me how arbitrary sets of packages relate to each other. I was stoked. I had it working with debs, debs from foreign architectures, and even rpms. I'm considering doing some hacking on it to make it understand source packages and build dependencies. I know Gustavo is not at all opposed to smart understanding source packages, but I haven't queried him yet for his plans. One thing that keeps people away from it is that it's smart enough to figure out that you might be able to fulfill a request by downgrading an unrelated package. Where apt and other tools give up, smart can figure out some creative solutions. Unfortunately for smart, some people fear downgrades. But anyway, a very interesting piece of software. If you are Progeny and wanting to depsolve both rpm and deb custom distros, very interesting indeed. -- Darrin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
