On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 21:18 -0500, Hawkwind wrote: > You can use smart at any given time if you have it installed. smart > --gui will get you going. smart --channel or smart --help will tell > you a ton of information. Using the gui is pretty intuitive. Also, > easyurpmi.zarb.org can give you the commands for smart as it does for > urpmi. We are in the middle of incorporating smart into the 5 sites > at http://urpmi-addmedia.org as well. I'm hoping to have that done by > end of the month at the latest.
Hawkwind, Thanks for the prompt response! I was able to install SMART packages and execute smart --gui etc. from the command prompt to get SMART going............ I am well on my way to answering my 1st two questions. I have much surfing and reading to do to get smarter on SMART (pun intended). Can you or anyone else answer my last two questions below: > > 3. Has anyone done this yet and what are the benefits or disadvantages > > of choosing to use SMART over the default Mandriva update tool? > > 4. If this new SMART is good, why is it not already configured as the > > default update tool for Mandriva 2006? > > > > Bill
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