On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:28:30PM -0300, Brian Mury wrote: > I do the same with smartpm. There is occasionally one minor problem: > up2date always looks for the latest version of any package, whereas > smartpm looks for the best version. Sometimes a third party repository For some computer-generated version of "best", of course. > will have the newest package but it is not compatible with other > packages I have installed. smartpm will (correctly) determine that it > should not be installed, but the up2date alert icon keeps showing that > there are new packages. Fortunately the up2date alert icon can be told > to ignore specific packages. Yes, handy for keeping security flaws around without getting those pesky fixes. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
