OK, I'm stumped

[Pascal Bleser]

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Basil Chupin wrote:
> As far as I know, the 'official' release of smart for Suse (10.1) is
> called 42-14 provided by Pascal Bleser.

I don't work for Novell, hence it's not the "official" release (whatever
"official" is supposed to mean ;)).

> At the same time, there is one provided by OpenSUSE BuildService which
> is 42-1-26 (as of now, jumped from 25 overnight). This one is, of
> course, on a different channel.
> 
> The big question: which one is the latest?

Both and neither ;)

> Are both compatible?

No, they contain different sets of patches.
But they don't break each other.

Mine includes three things the package from the BS does not (on purpose):
- - a patch to improve Smart's "install" behavior on x86_64
- - a patch to handle mirror definitions embedded in .channel files
- - comes preconfigured with most channels you'll need on SUSE

Basically, our opinions differ on the latter.
Christoph (who maintains the package in the BS) thinks it's a bad thing
that makes a lot of problems.
I think it's a good thing that makes life a lot easier for beginners
(and personally I haven't seen many problems with it).

We plan to maintain only a single package instead of two (most probably
in the BS) as the current situation is somewhat confusing, but haven't
found the time to do so (yet).

cheers
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