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Cliff Wells wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 09:50 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm using the following invocation:
smart update -o force-channelsync=yes
It has the side-effect of downloading updates for each channel too,
beyond merely adding them to the config, but that could be a feature...
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That would be a feature for my application. I'll give it a try.
Cliff
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If I can add my 2 cents worth, I use smart 0.52 on Mandriva Linux and
it seems to me from this thread that everybody is overlooking the
standard parameters that make smart eminently scriptable. These being
the command that I use when I want to run smart in cli mode rather than
gui mode:<br>
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smart-root upgrade --stepped --update --yes<br>
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This functions in the following way:<br>
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<li>Run smart as root and prompt for the root password (whether you
need to run as root or user depends on your configuration)</li>
<li>--update causes an automatic update of all channels</li>
<li>--stepped causes smart to determine all packages that need to be
upgraded, once this is done it downloads the first identified package
and any associated dependencies and then installs them, then proceeds
on to the next identified package, etc. This is the same as how urpmi
on Mandriva works by default</li>
<li>--yes causes yes to be supplied to the question, for each
package/group of packages, whether or not you want the upgrade to
proceed</li>
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The one bugbear I have with smart is that unlike urpmi it does not have
a parameter to tell it to not perform checksums on the channel
synthesis files, nor does it tell you how many packages it is going to
upgrade and what they are and ask you if you want to proceed.<br>
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regards,<br>
Steve<br>
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