smart patch

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

>> Should this really be supported in Smart, considering that the option
>> may be setup in rpm itself?
>
> In the meantime I found out that opensuse's smart rpm has a patch with
> the same functionality, so I'm using that instead.

Interesting!  Can you mail me this patch as well?


>> It'd be good to have some tests for that, but I recognize that it may
>> be a bit tricky to test this interaction with rpm.
>
> I use it on about 10 machines. It seems to be working :-).

I meant automated testing, so that we can see that it continues to
work on future releases.

> If you want to test it yourself, just set rpm-repackage to True before
> doing the next upgrade. The bug was only in progress report (callbacks,
> it uses a string where array was expected), there is no code change to
> the actual repackaging process.

I see.. thanks for the patch.

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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