Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 10:29 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
>
>>> Are you the same poster as several weeks ago? This very same topic
>>>
>> came
>>
>>> up a few weeks ago and elicited quite a few replies. My suggestion
>>>
>> (that
>>
>>> didn't suit the original poster) was to adopt the superior package
>>> manager "smart". I have used it for more than a year and have saved
>>>
>> all
>>
>>> my upgrade downloads in a local cache with no effort once set.
>>>
>>> Gavin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> nope it wasn't me, I only joined a few days ago. I saw smart mentioned
>> in another thread and installed and tried to enter my local repository
>> but it refused to accept it.
>>
>
> Pity you had a bad experience - imho 'smart' leaves other package
> managers for dead. I used yum in fedora in the past, but found it sucked
> big time in many show-stopping ways over the couple of years I
> persisted. Then I discovered yast after switching to opensuse with
> V.10.1, but there were all those well known problems with it back then
> (forums were full of help requests and work-arounds). Smart came up
> trumps for me after initial cofig. and has just got better.
>
> Don't know how you tried to set it up ... but, if you had populated your
> local cache under /var/lib/smart/cache/packages (and so on) with your
> own downloaded packages (after initial setup) it should have "just
> worked" to get your rpms off the local disk. Don't think you have to
> create a local repository unless you're serving up to a clutch of PCs on
> a LAN/WAN.
>
> Gavin
>
>
Which version of smart are you running? I got 0.52-31 and maybe its just
a bug. I tried to add packman to its list and it didn't take it either.
The biggest problem is the lack of documentation. I tried a couple of
configuration options from command line and couldn't come right either,
perhaps there is a file somewhere to edit, I can't find anything useful
in etc only two url specs it picked up on first run in the smart
directory. Nothing in root either. /var/lib/smart/cache is a file on my
system.
Dave
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