Smart Package Manager 0.40 review

The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the pr

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 496K Developer: Gustavo Niemeyer

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The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation.

This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).

Notice that this project is not a magical bridge between every distribution in the planet. Instead, this is a software offering better package management for these distributions, even when working with their own packages.

Using multiple package managers at the same time (like rpm and dpkg) is possible, even though not the software goal at this moment.

This project is in beta testing. Please, understand that bugs are expected to be found at that stage, and there are features that still must be implemented in the forthcoming future. Even then, this project is being tested in a considerable number of machines for several months already.

What's New in This Release:
A channel --remove-all option was added.
A bug that made the rpm-metadata loader ignore explicitly provided files in certain situations was fixed.
A detectsys.py plugin was added, which will automatically detect and include system channels when they're missing.
Double conversion of paths in LocalMediaHandler is now avoided.
German translations were integrated and the French translations were merged.
The deb backend now uses an underline for the name/version separator.
A bug in the protected read code for old Python versions was fixed along with a locking issue in the RPM pm