Still unable to use Smart with Mandriva

[Anders F Björklund]

>    Just following my previous email. Having received those messages from a channel update I then ran a sudo smart upgrade and received the message that there were no interesting updates available, but when I ran urpmi from the same mirrors urpmi identified 81 packages that needed upgrading and proceeded to download and install them. It also identified a package that needed to be removed because its dependency, which was an old program version, was no longer available (it had already been upgraded).
>    Why did smart not identify these packages for upgrading?

If you are using the "trunk" branch (with Mandriva 2011), it could be
because it doesn't recognize the new ":2011.0" distepochs in versions ?

For that, one needs the lp:~afb/smart/dist branch which is still testing.
Hard to know without looking at, remains to see if Mandriva will do so...

--anders