status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Florian La Roche]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:08:28PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> 
> > It would be very nice if one of the update utilities could be set to
> > ignore updates across repositories. I.e. if I've installed foo from
> > core and bar from atrpms and atrpms has newer versions of both foo and
> > bar, only bar gets updated.
> 
> smart can do exactly that.

You can use the sha/md5sum digest info to match between the rpms
installed in rpmdb (/var/lib/rpm/) and the rpm packages from the
repositories. This will only work if the repos still have the older
rpms listed though.
Is smart storing addon information in its own database?

regards,

Florian La Roche