reopen 4184642 thanks Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #418642: missing dependency on rpm, > which was filed against the smartpm package. > > It has been closed by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] by replying > to this email. > > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > some smart channels require write access to some directories > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: > Thu, 17 May 2007 22:57:00 -0300 > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hello, Michael. > > smart supports deb and slackpkg besides rpm. Nonetheless, smartpm-core > depend on python-rpm, which depends on librpm4. That's enough for smart > support for rpm packages. > > If you add some channels, however, they require read and/or write access > to some files, which only superuser usually has. Then, this error. > > Please, check your configured channels and try to run smart as > superuser. > > If this bothers you, please open the bug again, set its severity to > normal, and send us more information, like your configuration. > > I wouldn't be surprised if you had a rpm-dir channel configured. >
There is a rpm-sys channel in my configuration, but I never added that myself though. It seems to have been added by smart automatically, I'm not sure why, how and when. Is the rpm-sys channel automatically added as soon as the rpm binary is found? I remember that I had the rpm package installed once for some time (as dependency of the lsb package) but removed the rpm package again some time later. As I didn't add the rpm-sys channel myself and it was done automatically by smart, as it seems, I'm reopening the bug report. In a case like mine, when the rpm package is uninstalled, it would probably be best if smart would simply remove/disable the rpm-sys channel again automatically. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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