On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:54:49 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger > <fedora-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am running rawhide with smart. Enabled repos are fc-devel@0, freshrpms@0, > > dag@-5 newrpms@-5, atrpms-stable@-10, atrpms-good@-10, atrpms-bleeding@-20. > > > > It's heaven. > > Maybe to you... but i have sincere doubts that using smart is helping > to identify real packaging problems that exist. Has smart helped you > identify and report any rawhide packaging bugs? I don't think smart is intended to be a tool to identify real packaging problems. But there's a nice option that prints all unsatisfied dependencies. And I hope we can extend that dialog with more details of problems. In fact this dialog has helped Dries and me to improve our repository and fix a number of issues 3 days after Smart was released. Smart was also able to tell what old packages were still available that had issues we already fixed. Apart from that, I don't think it's good behaviour to bail out if there is a packaging problem. People may miss important updates just because somewhere, someone made a mistake. It could even be due to a mirror inconsistency, not something that can be fixed by a packager anyway. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
