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diff --git a/system/smart/README b/system/smart/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..463d9b6434 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/smart/README @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart +and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing +software upgrades 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 software offering better package management for +these distributions when working with their native packages. Using multiple +packaging systems at the same time (like rpm and dpkg) is possible but would +require packages from those systems to follow the same packaging guidelines. +As a general rule, mixing packaging systems is not recommended. + +Smart supports the following repository formats as source channels: + +RPM repositories + RPM System Database (locally installed packages) + APT repositories for .rpm + RPM-MD (used by YUM) + Red Carpet (used by Ximian/Novell) + + RPM Header List (used by RedHat and Conectiva installation CDs) + RPM Directory (a directory with a bunch of RPMs in it, no indexing required) + URPMI (used by Mandriva) + +DEB repositories + DEB System Database (locally installed packages) + APT repositories for .deb + DEB Directory (a directory with a bunch of DEBs in it, no indexing required) + +Slackware + Slackware installed packages database + Slackware repositories + +Mirrors + up2date (used by RedHat/Fedora) + Conectiva-style mirror description formats |