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With a fresh installation of Smart, either 1.3.1 or 1.4 (Mandriva
builds), when trying to add an urpmi channel it fails with the
message: "Base URL (baseurl) and Mirror List URL (mirrorurl) cannot
both be specified as fields for 'urpmi' channels," however I have
only entered information into "Base URL" and "Header List URL"
nothing into "Mirror List URL."<br>
<br>
Has anyone seen this problem and has a solution? Perhaps it only
occurs on Mandriva 2010.1 using Mandriva builds of Smart? Could it
be since Mandriva have started linking Smart to their own mirror
lists?<br>
<br>
I have deleted both /var/lib/smart and /usr/lib/smart and retried
with freshly initialised configuration, but have same problem.<br>
<br>
Please note however that there are also other issues that now make
Smart (1.4 at least) virtually unusable (on Fedora 13 too), being
>98% cpu utilisation during channel refresh or package download,
and no progress indication whatever, as if the Smart package has
crashed but it hasn't; if one waits long enough task completes, only
visual feedback is broken. This affects both i586 and 64 bit
systems.<br>
<br>
Note that Smart does work on Mandriva 2010.1 if using the Mandriva
supplied init script for Smart which links Smart to Mandriva's auto
mirror list - HOWEVER - Smart always crashes on startup until
reconfiguring the Mandriva channels manually. In a day or two, it's
necessary to reconfigure the channels manually again otherwise Smart
again crashes on startup. The error message escapes me right now but
Smart seems to think one or more channels is corrupt (they're not
because they still work in Mandriva's package manager).<br>
<br>
I have been using Smart for about 5 years now in preference to the
Mandriva supplied package manager and this is the first time I have
had issues trying to configure channels or anything else. Thanks <i>Gustavo
and others</i> who have given us Smart, for (normally) a great
package manager.<br>
<br>
If I can be of any help in sorting out these issues by providing
feedback on any bugfix patches on either Mandriva or Fedora, please
let me know. Smart is a great program and I'd love to have it
working well again as soon as possible.<br>
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