On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:44, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I just ran smart pkg mgr on my FC5 lappy, and any cups I click on >> claims it will downgrade 3 packages if I exec it. What the heck? >> Yumex doesn't seem to have that problem. > >Smart uses a different dependency resolving algorithm that offers to >downgrade packages automatically. RPM is not designed for downgrades and >Yum, Yumex, Pirut etc dont support this. Whether this is a advantage or >not is debatable. > >Rahul My point being that smart didn't show me a cups upgrade at all, only downgrades, while yumex just got done with 168 megs of upgrades w/o any apparent problems. Including cups and friends from whatever to 1.1.2-4.1-1. -- 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) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
