Bug 15096

Summary:	Smart package manager needs to call root authorization.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Malo Deniélou <pmdenielou>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tarakbumba
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	smart-1.4.1-14	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Doug Laidlaw 2015-01-20 17:35:06 CET

Description of problem:
Smart package manager needs to call root authorization.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Call Smart from menu.

Steps to Reproduce:
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I can call the Smart package manager from the command line after "su -"
but from the menu, just nothing happens.  It should ask for authorization, like rpmdrake.

Why Smart? Because I want to be able to use my computer SOME of the time, instead of waiting while rpmdrake runs around in circles for 20 minutes to get a list. The command-line urpmi is good, but sometimes I get the package name wrong.  You won't sell Mageia on a good command line.

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Steps to Reproduce:

David Walser 2015-01-20 21:14:11 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => pmdenielou

Comment 1 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2015-05-20 13:49:21 CEST

Smart is dropped from distribution due to broken urpmi backend and unmaintained. Note that Fedora dropped it two years ago. See: https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2015-05/msg00117.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tarakbumba
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 2 Doug Laidlaw 2015-05-20 14:24:58 CEST

OK, Resolved.