Is YUM superior to Synaptic ?? (was synaptic evolution)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 01:08 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:16:38 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 22:53 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:

> > > Those are typically yum or apt users upgrading from previous versions.
> > >  Majority of posters are not aware of smart.
> > 
> > You're missing the point. At some time, someone, for whatever reason
> > (e.g. upgrade from FC3 to FC4 but forget to update repos in smart
> > config) will point smart at a set of repos for an older distribution.
> > The question is: what will happen as a result of that? Hopefully nothing
> > too bad!

> A good reason why the release version should not be hard -coded in the
> config files.
Which config file?

All external repositories carry the release version in some directory
somewhere.

Ralf