Is Smart available on Embedded Linux?

[Hai Ho Thanh]

Thank you very much for your reply, Mauricio :)

I have use smart a time on both Ubuntu 7.10 and CentOS 4.5 and  I like it
very much :). My developing system (MFP - Multi Function Peripheral) bases
on a rpm distro (similar to CentOS) so I will very happy if smart can run on
it.

I also study other tools: apt, yum; I found that smart and apt (apt-rpm for
rpm distros) outperform to yum. Apt and smart are more rapidly and less bugs
than yum (after using both 3 tools for a time). So until now, our team are
confusing to chose apt or smart for our developing system.

As I know Apt does not need python like smart. So apt maybe have more
advantages than smart for embeded system solution? Do you think that Python
is the big problems for smart to run on an embedded system (which have a
little of resources: memory, processor speed).

One thing I still confuse is memory consumption. Have you ever installed
smart in system which have very small memory (like embedded system). I can't
imagine the smart speed in this case :).

On Jan 14, 2008 9:35 PM, Mauricio Teixeira <mteixeira at webset.net> wrote:

> Hai Ho Thanh wrote:
> > I'm now studying in update tools for an embedded linux base on rpm
> > system. Anyone in here have ever used smart in embedded Linux (my target
> > machine runs on VxWork - Windriver for example)? If yes, you can share
> > me some experiences.
>
> Well, there is nothing in Smart that would avoid it from working on an
> embedded system. It just happens that someone needs to have it
> installed, and the given distribution needs to have a repository format
> understandable by Smart.
>
> The only thing I could think that could be a problem is memory
> consumption. Not sure how much memory you have in that embedded system,
> neither how much tweaked is the python in there to make Smart work nicely.
>
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