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The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart
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and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing
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software upgrades and installation.
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This tool works in all major distributions and will bring notable advantages
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over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).
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Notice that this project is not a magical bridge between every distribution in
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the planet. Instead, this is software offering better package management for
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these distributions when working with their native packages. Using multiple
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packaging systems at the same time (like rpm and dpkg) is possible but would
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require packages from those systems to follow the same packaging guidelines.
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As a general rule, mixing packaging systems is not recommended.
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Smart supports the following repository formats as source channels:
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RPM repositories
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RPM System Database (locally installed packages)
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APT repositories for .rpm
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RPM-MD (used by YUM)
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Red Carpet (used by Ximian/Novell)
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RPM Header List (used by RedHat and Conectiva installation CDs)
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RPM Directory (a directory with a bunch of RPMs in it, no indexing required)
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URPMI (used by Mandriva)
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DEB repositories
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DEB System Database (locally installed packages)
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APT repositories for .deb
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DEB Directory (a directory with a bunch of DEBs in it, no indexing required)
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Slackware
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Slackware installed packages database
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Slackware repositories
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Mirrors
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up2date (used by RedHat/Fedora)
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Conectiva-style mirror description formats
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