On Sunday 27 April 2008 16:21:55 Joe Morris wrote:

On 04/27/2008 11:19 AM, Bob S wrote:

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I've been using smart for years now. Always preferred it. Worked like a charm. Now it has begun being stupid.

Trying to do upgrades it is trying to give me i586 packages when I am running x86_64 on 10.3 Even to the point of replacing an identical 64 bit package with the 32 bit one.

Anybody else seeing this? Who do I email about stupid smart?

Bob S

That is why I no longer use Smart and only use Yast. Smart works well, but x86_64 seems to cause it problems, unacceptable to me. I would rather go a bit slower than mess up my system in a hurry.

IMHO Apt is still the best of the package manager breed but on rpm based systems I prefer smart. I still find it faster than zypper despite the optimisations that have gone into zypper. I occassionally will run both just to see what they find and smart generally gives me results which look more in align with what I was expecting. Agreed it occassionally messes up with 64 bit systems but I general find that is because the i586 repository has a newer package and the x86_64 repository hasn't caught up yet. In those cases I normally wait till the next day and nine times out of ten the problem goes away. Two things I would like to know are: 1. Do either of these packages have the equivalent of Debian's deborphan? 2. Does yzpper have the equivalent of smart fix? -- Regards Scott Newton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org