Fedora Core 4

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:54:49 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger
> <fedora-devel at camperquake.de> wrote:
> > I am running rawhide with smart. Enabled repos are fc-devel at 0, freshrpms at 0,
> > dag at -5 newrpms at -5, atrpms-stable at -10, atrpms-good at -10, atrpms-bleeding at -20.
> > 
> > It's heaven.
> 
> Maybe to you... but i have sincere doubts that using smart is helping
> to identify real packaging problems that exist.  Has smart helped you
> identify and report any rawhide packaging bugs?

I don't think smart is intended to be a tool to identify real packaging 
problems. But there's a nice option that prints all unsatisfied 
dependencies. And I hope we can extend that dialog with more details of 
problems.

In fact this dialog has helped Dries and me to improve our repository and 
fix a number of issues 3 days after Smart was released. Smart was also 
able to tell what old packages were still available that had issues we 
already fixed.

Apart from that, I don't think it's good behaviour to bail out if there is 
a packaging problem. People may miss important updates just because 
somewhere, someone made a mistake. It could even be due to a mirror 
inconsistency, not something that can be fixed by a packager anyway.

--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]