Using smart package manager in Ubuntu hoary

[HiddenWolf]

cool, this would be good as a alternative to synaptic.

Alternative to the best software-package I've ever seen....
Blasphemy

[EdCrypt]

Smartpm .deb avaliable:
http://people.labmice.com.br/rst/stuff/debian/

[rwabel]

i installed the debian package from smartpm.org on my hoary. It doesn't work. A hoary package would be handy.

smart output :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 27, in ?
    from smart.const import VERSION, DEBUG, DATADIR
ImportError: No module named smart.const

I get the exact same error message with the debian package from the smart homepage. I then took the warty backport even I run hoary. Same problem. Don't know what the problem is. Anyone achieved make it run under hoary?

[jdong]

Smartpm .deb avaliable:
http://people.labmice.com.br/rst/stuff/debian/

Without sources or , more importantly, the necessary diff.gz debianized patch to the source. VERY helpful...

[nuopus]

*** Packages for Debian (under work!)


As soon as debian packages come out, I'll definitely do a Warty extras with this, so we can start testing...


However, I don't have much faith in this package manager... Especially like with Fedora, all Fedora KDE apps (Amarok, whatever) will be linked to Fedora's castrated KDE edition, which won't be binary-compatible with , say, Debian's KDE.

Heck you can't safely mix Hoary binaries with Warty's , how can you expect to mix across distributions??

Because it allows you to specify priorities to each repository or channel. I have added hoary and made it top priority. It does not mess anything up since it always takes from the hoary repository ... and if it is not in hoary it will go to the warty ones. You can also specify priorities to individual packages and say ... only update mplayer from THIS repo whenever you do an update. You can force a version with synaptic ... but when you update there are no priorities and will go to whichever one.

[rwabel]

Because it allows you to specify priorities to each repository or channel. I have added hoary and made it top priority. It does not mess anything up since it always takes from the hoary repository ... and if it is not in hoary it will go to the warty ones. You can also specify priorities to individual packages and say ... only update mplayer from THIS repo whenever you do an update. You can force a version with synaptic ... but when you update there are no priorities and will go to whichever one.

Did you achieve to make it work under hoary? Can you explain the steps?
thanks

[nuopus]

Did you achieve to make it work under hoary? Can you explain the steps?
thanks

Yes. Just add a new channel with http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu as the location, warty as distrib and main restricted universe multiverse. I then set the priority of the warty channel to -10 and the priority of the hoary one to 1.

After that you then have to go and hit the reload button. You can then do a full upgrade and it will only upgrade from warty since the priority of it is so much higher than warty.

Another advantage is you can set an individual package from warty to higher than the hoary ones so when you upgrade you only get that ONE package upgraded from warty. Works very nice for buggy packages that you want to keep the warty version for.

[nuopus]

Did you achieve to make it work under hoary? Can you explain the steps?
thanks

I think I am going to get brave and try to add an rpm repository to it too just to see if it will work. I should though ... as long as I set the priority to -10 and change warty to -9 or something. Will let you know if it works!

[rwabel]

Yes. Just add a new channel with http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu as the location, warty as distrib and main restricted universe multiverse. I then set the priority of the warty channel to -10 and the priority of the hoary one to 1.

After that you then have to go and hit the reload button. You can then do a full upgrade and it will only upgrade from warty since the priority of it is so much higher than warty.

Another advantage is you can set an individual package from warty to higher than the hoary ones so when you upgrade you only get that ONE package upgraded from warty. Works very nice for buggy packages that you want to keep the warty version for.

That sounds great, my problem is already with smart. How the heck did you make smart work? I always get the same message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/smart", line 27, in ?
from smart.const import VERSION, DEBUG, DATADIR
ImportError: No module named smart.const

[jdong]

Please stay on the topic of discussing Smart and Hoary, problems with installing smart.