On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:22:11 -0400, Temlakos wrote: > Recently I installed the Smart Package Manager (http://www.smartpm.org/) > and /finally/ figured out what I was doing wrong. Apt, yum, and other > PM's routinely and implicitly give you a channel to the installed base > of packages on your system. Smart, being a "universal PM," does not--so > you have to /tell/ it where to find your installed base. Fortunately, > that's not too hard: you add a "channel" to "RPM Installed Packages." > > Once you do that, you add channels for all your yum repos, and other > channels "Mirror information (up2date format)" for all your mirror > lists. Then you rank your yum repos ("RPM metadata") in order of > priority. I set base, updates-released, extras, livna, yjl-noarch, > yjl-i386, jpackage-generic, and jpackage-fedora to the highest priority. > Then I can add freshrpms and dag at a slightly lower priority, and > at-stable at a still lower priority. That way, packages don't break one > another with conflicts. > This is very interesting, I'll give it a try, thanks! > > Beyond that: Livna has a version of MPlayer, but I found it broken. So I > made an exception for MPlayer and gave FreshRPMS version the highest > priority. How's the livna mplayer broken? I just installed it, and seemed ok, though didn't test it very thoroughly. > gtkam is obsolete. Now, when you plug in your camera or card reader, it > automatically mounts as a USB file system. So you work with your > pictures in Nautilus, using Nautilus to transfer or delete them. Excellent! I wish that was in the release notes. > Extras should have apt--I'm sure I saw it there. I haven't seen synaptic > in awhile, though. It does, I installed it from there, it's just that it gives that error that I posted initially about missing mirrors file. But following Michael Peters' advice, I converted to yum. Thanks for the info, very useful!
