On Sunday 18 February 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I just swore off of livna, once you have a livna rpm installed, its
>> dependencies absolutely preclude updating anything else. Is there not
>> an equ from freshrpms, dries, or atrpms?
>>
>> I'm trying to maintain a semiworking system here, but if I nuke
>> everything from livna, I doubt if it would even reboot. So out of
>> this list, what is safe to 'rpm -e --nodeps' and then reinstall from
>> one of the other repo's?
>
>You might want to install SMART and use it to make the replacements.
>I am still learning it, but one thing I like is that it will display
>the packages from all the repo's next to each other, with the
>installed one in green. It will then let you pick the package from
>another rope, and un-install from the first. As long as the new
>package will fill the dependencies of the old package, it will
>replace one package with the other. It will also pop up a list of
>packages that would get removed if you remove a package, and let you
>change your mind. You can even "downgrade" a package to an older
>version. It doesn't completely eliminate the dependencies problem,
>but id does make change what repo a package comes from a bit easier.
>Now, if it would only let you see the repo and the description at
>the same time...
I did run it, for the first time today, but apparently my setup wasn't
sufficient to enable that very handy bit of logic. I assume I don't have
enough stuff in the /etc/smart tree:
root@coyote smart]# ls
channels distro.d
[root@coyote smart]# tree
.
|-- channels
| |-- fedora-core.channel
| |-- fedora-development.channel
| |-- fedora-extras-development.channel
| |-- fedora-extras.channel
| |-- fedora-legacy.channel
| |-- fedora-updates-testing.channel
| |-- fedora-updates.channel
| `-- smart.channel
`-- distro.d
`-- livna.py
2 directories, 9 files
Where do I get the enabling files for the rest of it?
Thanks, Mikkal.
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