Smart has been added to the Arch User Repository (AUR)

[Anders F Björklund]

>> I just set "detect_sys_channels = "arch"" in "smart/plugins/ 
>> detectsys.py",
>> but I'm still getting that shitty "'rpm' python module is not  
>> available"
>> error message and 'smart' refuses to continue.  I just removed  
>> "import rpm"
>> from "smart/backends/rpm/base.py", but doing so only caused other  
>> Python
>> errors at runtime.
>
> I don't (require you to read code), just recall Slackware having the
> same "problem" and fixing it. Will have to probe what the "fix" was,
> even if it requires installing Arch Linux and/or Slackware again...
> But the rpm python module is only required for the rpm smart backend.

I cannot reproduce this. Can you open a bug report, and attach some  
info ?

smart channel --show, traceback you get with smart --log-level=debug,  
etc

https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart

--anders
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