Marius Roets wrote:
On 8/15/06, Mike Dewhirst <miked@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
Can you say why you were impressed?
Mike
Well, mostly because it just works:) I must say, I was very sceptical of a 3rd party tool that is currently standing at version 0.42, which lead to me being pleasantly suprised. I started smart, it suggested some channels, which just so happens to be all the ones I wanted. I clicked refresh all channels, and it gave me a list of updates available. I said install all, and was impressed to see that it can download from all sites in parallel. There is definately some minor glitches still, but all in all, I think it was worth the time invested in it. Some glitches: - The tray icon always asks for the root password when you log in. - The tray icon does not give a clear indication of status. You have to hover the mouse over it to get a tool tip of the status. - Right click on the tray icon , and selecting "Start Smart .." does nothing. - Only a subset of functions are implemented in the gui. This got me at first. Once you're running, the gui is all you need.
Marius
This was suggested in the smart list forum and while I initially thought that what was being proposed sounded "risky" I now concur with the idea and have, in fact, implemented this on my system. To make smart act like the old YOU did do this: in /etc/permissions.local add the entry- /usr/bin/smart-update root.root 4755 and then execute SuSEconfig --module permissions Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1