I've been trying out smart in anticipation of the future changeover. All in all I've been impressed with it's depdendency resolving capabilities, especially the fact it can downgrade packages to resolve dependecy woes - something that would've been very useful on one of the debian boxen I look after at work. However, I do find that it does freeze from time to time when installing multiple packages - just no activity. Using top I can see it's still in memory, but not using any cpu cycles - I've had to kill it manually and it seems to resume ok. I've been unable to consistently reproduce the error, except to say that it does occure on both my work and home computers. Any idea why this would be? A problem I'm having at present with it is and running an upgrade on the smart package itself - although this is possibly an incomplete syncing on ftp.gwdg.de The error has been occuring for 7/8 hours now though: pablo:/home/craig # smart install smart Loading cache... Updating cache... ############################################################################ [100%] Computing transaction... Upgrading packages (1): smart-0.40-8.guru.suse100@i686 517.0kB of package files are needed. 143B will be used. Confirm changes? (Y/n): Fetching packages... -> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-guru/smart-0... smart-0.40-8.guru.suse100.i686.rpm [ 0%] error: Failed to download packages: error: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-guru/smart-0...: Not Found hmmm.. How long does a typical sync take? Finally, I've been following the discussions on smart's performance with interest, especially as it is killer slow on my home machine which is a cobbled together 800MHz piece of crap from work - in time, I'll try and tune it according to the advice available. The docs are short though! I'd be happy to help out if someone pointed me in the right direction. At this stage I guess that'd mean looking at the source code? THanks Craig