[Bug 349866] Re: Update smart to 1.2

[Andreas Hasenack]

** Description changed:

  This is an update request for smart in Jaunty. The new version, 1.2, has
  the following important fixes compared to 1.1.1 which is in Jaunty now:
  
  DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES
  - bug #268261: add timeout for smart connections. Without this, smart would stay stuck forever if the server it was connected to didn't reply anymore but kept the connection open.
  
  - bug #236884: need to set proxy for smart too. landscape-client can be
  configured with a proxy, but this setting is not inherited by smart. So
  landscape-client would be working, but smart wouldn't.
  
  - bug #292542: support python 2.6. Without this fix, a bunch of warnings
  is sent to the terminal (if run interactively) and the landscape-client
  logs
  
  Upstream changelog for this release (http://lists.labix.org/pipermail/smart-labix.org/2009-March/003875.html):
  - Smart now works with Python 2.6, as well as Python 2.3 still.
  - Timestamps of fetched files was setting the wrong timezone, which could trigger unnecessary downloads of unchanged files.
  - A timeout was added to pycurl connections, to avoid hangs.
  - Debian backend now recognizes Darwin and Solaris packages.
  - An option was added to the KDE smarttray to start the GUI up.
  - When using "rpm-root", now correctly use an absolute path.
  - Screen width now defaults to 80 characters, if detection fails.
  - Pathlist/contents were updated to work with newer RPM versions.
  - Smart now doesn't exit when encountering RPM dependency loops.
  
  
  RATIONALE
  Of the three bugs above, the first two are very important for landscape-client. We always have around 20-30 clients which are reporting no packages at all to the Landscape server, which indicates smart is for some reason not working properly.
  
  Both bug #268261 and bug #236884 were QA'ed by me (as can see in the
  respective bug reports) and also have self tests for the fixes.
  
- I'm now afraid firefox will crash and I will lose what I wrote, and I
- still have lots to do. So I'll open the bug and alter the description.
+ The package:
+ - builds on jaunty
+ - installs and upgrades on jaunty
+ - works with landscape-client on jaunty
+ - still testing GUI

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Update smart to 1.2
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