» SmartPM on SUSE: call for testers

Already heard of smartpm, the "Smart Package Manager" ? No ? Then you must check this out. Just look at those features :) To make it really short: Smart is a package management frontend (just like YaST2, y2pmsh, apt, yum, urpmi) that supports installing packages from local directories, local files, yum (rpm-md), apt (and apt-rpm), urpmi repositories onto rpm, dpkg/deb and slackware pkg. What's so cool about it ? Didn't notice yet ? ;) Well, it can handle various backends and metadata repositories and... it does so without actually requiring nor using apt-get or yum. It includes its own implementation of those repository formats. It's all written in Python (with just a small .so for optimization of large repositories). It also has a command-line interface, a shell interface (with tab completion) and a GTK2 GUI (that looks a lot like synaptic). It comes preconfigured with my repository, as well as Packman. Still not curious about it ? It can also manage mirror sites for repositories. Very easily. And it will pick the best mirror. And you know what ? It needs a lot of testing on SUSE Linux, so if you use that distribution, go ahead, and install my smart RPM for SUSE Linux (10.0, 9.3, 9.2, 9.1 and 9.0). Finally, Christoph Thiel has added smart to SUSE Linux 10.1 alpha ("EDGE") - it will appear in alpha2. Go get it, use it, provide feedback ;)