Re: status of up2date and rhn-applet

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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:33:29PM +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be very nice if one of the update utilities could be set to
> > > ignore updates across repositories. I.e. if I've installed foo from
> > > core and bar from atrpms and atrpms has newer versions of both foo and
> > > bar, only bar gets updated.
> > 
> > smart can do exactly that.
> 
> You can use the sha/md5sum digest info to match between the rpms
> installed in rpmdb (/var/lib/rpm/) and the rpm packages from the
> repositories. This will only work if the repos still have the older
> rpms listed though.

Most repos purge the old rpms, and even updates-released does so every
now and then.

Why not use the signature or other meta- data like vendor to map
packages to origin?

> Is smart storing addon information in its own database?

No, no history information.
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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