SmartRPM !!

[cybrjackle]

http://www.smartpm.org/

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/smart/

[b]Edit: how to add [b]

$ su -
<passwd>

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d

add a dries.repo and drop the following in it: (vi dries.repo)

[dries]
name=Dries APT/YUM Repository
baseurl=http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
  http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dag/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
  http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
  http://dries.studentenweb.org/yum/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Import his gpg key

# rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/dries/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt

Install the smart tools

yum install smart smart-gui smart-update

[yanik]

OMFG!!! lol.

Seems too good to be true.

Anyone tried it yet?

[yanik]

BTW it's smartpm, not smartrpm

[_the_mighty_]

When I try to start it with

smart --gui

I'm getting

error: Invalid interface 'gtk'

What's that? Shell mode works fine.

mighty

[_the_mighty_]

ok, thinking then posting installing the gui rpm should fix that

[yanik]

hehe, so? how is it? did you break your FC3 yet? lol. Can't wait to go home and try it.


La vie est encore plus dure sans beurre d'arrachide

[_the_mighty_]

This thing is good. My FC3 is still running (let's see what happens after rebooting ). I think this proggi is very useful. Needed some minutes to figure out how to exclude packages, because I compile the kernel myself, so I don't need these rpms.

Have fun folks

mighty

[h4d]

Installed it, works like a charm. Highly recommended!

[yanik]

yep, I like it too, it's a lot faster than yum IMO. But I don't know about those default 13 repos tho. I removed some to reflect more the yum config file found on fedorafaq. I also wouldn't trust it yet for a full system upgrade. But it is very flexible, and the UI is very clean, I like that. I'll try to only use smart from now on and see how it goes.

I not too sure how to deal with priority yet. The way I see it, the official updates should have the highest priority, followed by fedora.us, then livna and then all the others. Dag's not compatible with livna I think, but what about freshRPM?

Anyway, everyone should use it. Fedorafaq should write a paper on this one.

[cybrjackle]

Originally Posted by yanik

yep, I like it too, it's a lot faster than yum IMO. But I don't know about those default 13 repos tho. I removed some to reflect more the yum config file found on fedorafaq. I also wouldn't trust it yet for a full system upgrade. But it is very flexible, and the UI is very clean, I like that. I'll try to only use smart from now on and see how it goes.

I not too sure how to deal with priority yet. The way I see it, the official updates should have the highest priority, followed by fedora.us, then livna and then all the others. Dag's not compatible with livna I think, but what about freshRPM?

Anyway, everyone should use it. Fedorafaq should write a paper on this one.

I'm the opposite, I enable freshrpms and dag and disable livna/fedora.us

[yanik]

I'm no fedora guru, does it work well? I did it that way because I often see people saying fedora.us/livna have better package, more testing etc... could be wrong tho.

[_the_mighty_]

SmartRPM ran fine for serveral weeks now. But now, if I want to upgrade all, I get an error:

SDL_gfx-2.0.12-3.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm: public key not available

Im aware or two possibilitiers: Getting the appropriate key or disable gpg checking. But I'm neither sure which key I need and where I can find it, nor do I know where to disabale gpg checking.

Can anybody help?

Thanks,

mighty

[sailor]

These are the keys listed on the Fedora Faqs page just run from command line as root:
* Red Hat:
rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY*
* fedora.us:
rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
* rpm.livna.org:
rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
* FreshRPMs:
rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt
* DAG:
rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
* ATrpms:
rpm --import http://atrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
* NewRPMs:
rpm --import http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/gpg-pubkey-newrpms.txt
* Dries:
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/dries/RPM-GPG-KEY.dries.txt
* JPackage:
rpm --import http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc

For others check their site for the appropriate url

[piedamaro]

Great tool!!!

[Mtnear]

So, is this a better option than the YUM Extender that I've been reading about?