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Q: How can I easily do system updates?
A: SmartPM. SmartPM is a GUI (Graphical-User-Interface) for package managment. It can install, list, upgrade,
and even show you a description of packages! First, get ATRPMS installed (see ATRPMS.txt). Then, do this in a terminal:
$ yum install medley-package-config smart smart-gui
$ smart
When SMART asks for all the different channels, click "Yes" or "No" to include them or not.
Personally, I like only to include RPM(sys), Base, Released Updates, Extras, ATRPMS, Dag, Dries, FreshRPMS, and Livna.
Next, run smart from the start menu. (I think it's under system-tools, I may be wrong.)
Select (Menu):
View > Tree Style > Channels
Edit > Channels
For each of the "atrpms" and "freshrpms" entries, click "Properties" in the corner. Then, click the "minus" button on Priority so that it shows -1.
This will prevent you system from re-installing 150 packages for no reason.
Smart will show updates in ATRPMS and FRESHRPMS all the time, but make sure the version really increased before upgrading.
What really happens is ATPRMS and FRESHRPMS both add a little part (.atrpms and .rf) to the version of the package.
So, even though it's the EXACT same software, because ATRPMS added the .atrpms part, the system think's it's a whole new file.
