On Saturday 24 March 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Chris Jones wrote: >>> Oh yes, that exists, no problem. But the repo control directory for >>> smart is both in a different location, its in a different format, so >>> it doesn't appear that I can just move the yum.repos.d file to the >>> smart tree without modifying things in an as yet un-explained to me >>> format. >>> >>> I wasn't saying that the yum.repos.d files were pure unobtainium, but >>> that the corresponding smart formatted files were. >> >> Ahh. I see. I personally have only ever used yum (although I admit >> playing with smart just now has got me interested) >> >> I tested it by removing firefox. 'yum install firefox' correctly >> wanted to bring in FF2 from remi, where as 'smart install firefox' was >> bring in 1.5 from fedora. >> >> Isn't smart supposed to be able to handle yum config files ? > >No - Smart uses its own format. It also maintains its own table of >enables channels. But you can configure Smart to use the repo >itself. Some repo's, like Livna, provide both Yum and Smart >configuration information. If there is a way to tell Smart to get >channel information from a Yum repo file, I have not found it. > >Mikkel I was afraid of that, thanks. Now Remi, its your turn :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. -- Chief Justice Earl Warren
