Anyone still using smart ?

[Radovan Prodanovic]

Gustavo, Anders:

Thanks you both for your replies.

Yes, the smart 1.5 does work for us. One especially neat feature is an ability to operate on chrooted environment and perform an upgrade agasint it, the inactive rootfs, with a small caveat: one has to manually create  /mnt/var/volatile folder first. Other than that, works as a charm.



From: Gustavo Niemeyer [mailto:gustavo at niemeyer.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 12:51 PM
To: Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se>
Cc: Radovan Prodanovic <radovan.prodanovic at mitel.com>; Smart <smart at labix.org>
Subject: Re: Anyone still using smart ?


I also agree with Anders, if it suits you, by all means do use it. I can't offer much support by now, but hope you make the best out of it.

On Aug 11, 2016 12:52 PM, "Anders F Björklund" <afb at algonet.se<mailto:afb at algonet.se>> wrote:
Radovan Prodanovic wrote:

> Anders,
>
> WindRiverLinux (WRL) is using and supports smart PM.
>
> WindRiver is a major contributor to Yocto project.
>
> WRL also includes apt and opkg, as well as rpm.
>
> WRL does not officially package/support dnf though.
>
> I was planning to use the smart PM in WRL. Are you suggesting I should not?


If it works for you (as it is), then by all means continue to use it :-)

I am mostly using CentOS and Ubuntu, and they are moving away from it...
So my question was for the "upstream" project of Smart for every distro,
rather than about any "downstream" usage in any particular distribution.
Not sure what opkg is, but guessing* that it is something for embedded ?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipkg
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opkg

I have only used the "arch" backend (pacman), rather than any of these 2.
Well, besides the usual rpm and dpkg and the (now defunct) slack that is.

Either way, the rpm (with python) is well known and "supported" with 1.5.
I am not aware of what the problems or the roadmap is, with WRL and Smart.


Patches welcome.

https://github.com/smartpm/smart/pulls

--anders

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