Smart Package Manager

Summary

Usage: smart config [options]

This command allows changing the internal configuration
representation arbitrarily. This is supposed to be used
by advanced users only, and is generally not needed.

Options:
  -h, --help  Show this help message and exit
  --set       Set given key=value options
  --show      Show given options
  --remove    Remove given options
  --force     Ignore problems

Examples:
  smart config --set someoption.suboption=10
  smart config --remove someoption
  smart config --show someoption
  smart config --show

Available Options

General

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  log-level	INFO	ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG	how verbose smart messages should be
  psyco	True	True, False	whether to use the Python optimizer or not (FAQ entry (1) (2))
  default-gui	gtk	gtk, qt	Set the default GUI (QT not implemented yet)
  explain-changesets	False	True, False	force "--explain" on all operations
  last-update			shows the time of the last successfull update
  text-hide-version	conditional	True, False	show if the changeset has less than 40 actions. If the changeset has more than 40 actions (install/remove), it's false, if it's less, it's true.
  prefer-removable	False	True. False	Smart will use removable channels (e.g. CDROM) rather than fetching from a remote location, if both options are available

Locations

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  data-dir	/var/lib/smart	(directory)	root of Smart control directories
  user-data-dir	~/.smart	(directory)	user-specific control directory
  default-localmedia		directory	Set the directory where your media is

Package handling

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  disk-cache	True	True, False	whether to enable smart's metadata cache on disk (FAQ entry)
  remove-packages	True	True, False	whether to remove downloaded packages after a sucessfull transaction (FAQ entry)

Network

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  http-proxy	(none)	(url)	use given proxy on HTTP downloads
  ftp-proxy	(none)	(url)	use given proxy on FTP downloads
  socket-timeout	120	seconds	timeout for download operations
  keyserver		server	some keyserver (e.g. wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net) See here for a list of local keyservers

Channel handling

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  detectlocalchannels-maxdepth	5	(number)	max directory recursion level when adding local directory channels
  force-channels	(none)	(channel(s))	channels that should be always considered as 'enabled' (even if marked as 'disabled')
  detect-sys-channels	True	True, False	whether to detect local system channels when starting Smart
  channel-sync-dir	/etc/smart/channels	(directory)	import channel information from files on that directory (the files are read only once, either upon creation or changing)
  force-channel-sync	False	True, False	force channel sync from channel-sync-dir on every Smart initialization

RPM specific

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  rpm-root	/	(directory)	what root directory to use to install the packages (see rpm's --root option) (FAQ entry)
  rpm-check-signatures	False/ as of 0.42 default is True	True, False	whether RPM package signatures should be verified before installing
  rpm-justdb	False	True, False	only install RPM package information into the RPM database but don't install the package files (see rpm's --justdb option)
  rpm-noconfigs	False	True, False	don't install files marked as configuration files
  rpm-nodocs	False	True, False	don't install files marked as documentation files
  rpm-excludedocs	False	True, False	same as rpm-nodocs
  rpm-nomd5	False	True, False	don't verify the RPM integrity using its MD5 hash sum
  rpm-noscripts	False	True, False	don't execute post-installation scripts that are in the RPM package
  rpm-notriggers	False	True, False	don't execute trigger scripts that are in the RPM package
  rpm-test	False	True, False	don't perform the package installation for real, just test if it would work (see rpm's --test option)
  rpm-force	False	True, False	Install anyway
  rpm-repackage	False	True, False	Re-package the files before erasing. The previously installed package will be named according to the macro %_repackage_name_fmt and will be created in the directory named by the macro %_repackage_dir (default value is /var/spool/repackage).
  rpm-log-level	info	emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug	Set how much detail you want.
  rpm-allfiles	False	True, False	Installs or upgrades all the missingok files in the package
  rpm-order	True	True, False	Reorder the packages for an install. The list of packages would normally be reordered to satisfy dependancies.

DEB specific

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  deb-root	/	(directory)	What root directory to use to install the packages
  deb-arch		pentium, i386, sparc64, sparc, powerpc, mipseb, mips, shel, sh, x86_64, amd64	Set architecture
  deb-admindir	/var/lib/dpkg	directory	Change default directories
  deb-instdir	/	directory	Change default directories

Slack specific

• Option	Default	Values	Description
  slack-root	/	(directory)	What root directory to use to install the packages
  slack-packages-dir	/var/log/packages	directory	Change default directories