[ATrpms-users] Building new MX servers using atrpms

[Jani Partanen]

Yes I have noticed that too. Smart wasn't able to upgrade my system from fc4
to fc6 so I had to use apt to do it. I let it run 24h and it was eating all
CPU time so I did give up. apt did the job in no time.
But if we look the features what smart offers, it really beats apt and yum.


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Jani Partanen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Thimm [mailto:thimm at neu.nirvana] On Behalf Of Axel Thimm
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:18 AM
> To: Michael Mansour
> Cc: Jani Partanen; atrpms-users at atrpms.net
> Subject: Re: Building new MX servers using atrpms
> 
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:08:01AM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> > > Very first, start to use smart. It beats yum hands down.
> >
> > I tried smart about 6 months ago and wasn't too impressed with it's
> > features. I have wrapper scripts that I've made which use yum to query
> > packages from different repo's I use, and when trying to translate those
> > scripts to smart equivalents, smart didn't provide the featureset I
> needed.
> >
> > That's not to say smart isn't good, but for my requirements it was still
> > immature. I will wait about another year before looking at it again.
> 
> The current worst feature of smart is its slow speed, especially when
> doing disto-upgrades, e.g. more than 500-1000 package updates. But the
> upcoming smart (0.50) is going to improve this from minutes to seconds
> (at least that's what people report on the smart list about the
> release candidate). So I'd check on smart with 0.50's release.
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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