Smart 1.4.1 Usage in Fedora 17

[Mark Hatle]

On 1/13/13 3:25 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>       Having moved from Mandriva 2011 to Fedora 17 as the closest distro
> I can find to Red Hat 6 which we are using at work, I am trying to use
> Smart 1.4.1. Ignoring a problem that I was getting under Mandriva that
> is also occurring randomly on Fedora as well, I am trying to get Smart
> to use the Yum functionality of using delta rpms where possible for
> updates. The impression I get at the moment is that when Smart downloads
> the rpms it is downloading full rpms rather than deltas, if that is not
> correct how do I get Smart to provide the same messages as Yum does in
> terms of downloading the deltas and informing the user that it is using
> the delta to rebuild the rpm? I am using Smart 1.4.1 downloaded from
> your site as Fedora 17 only provides Smart 1.3.1 in their repositories,
> and if I remember correctly Smart 1.3.1 doesn't provide support for
> mirror lists which I am using in conjunction with base urls.

As far as I know, Smart does not support deltarpms at this point.  I'd love it 
if someone has implemented it though...

--Mark

> regards,
> Steve
>