[Goodies-commits] r3296 - xfce4-smartpm-plugin/trunk

Anders F Bjorklund afb at xfce.org
Thu Oct 4 15:14:38 CEST 2007


Author: afb
Date: 2007-10-04 13:14:38 +0000 (Thu, 04 Oct 2007)
New Revision: 3296

Modified:
   xfce4-smartpm-plugin/trunk/README
Log:
add some documentation

Modified: xfce4-smartpm-plugin/trunk/README
===================================================================
--- xfce4-smartpm-plugin/trunk/README	2007-10-04 12:44:56 UTC (rev 3295)
+++ xfce4-smartpm-plugin/trunk/README	2007-10-04 13:14:38 UTC (rev 3296)
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 This is a Smart plugin for the Xfce panel, version 4.4.0 or higher. It
 checks for package updates using the Smart Package Manager (smartpm.org).
 
-It can also be configured, but with less features and functionality,
+It should work with both Fedora (RPM packages) and Ubuntu (DEB packages),
+and also with Slackware (TGZ packages) although this has not been tested.
+
+It can also be configured, though with less features and functionality,
 to use either the Yum (+Extender) or APT (+Synaptic) package managers.
 
 Installation
@@ -18,6 +21,32 @@
 To make an RPM package, you can use "make rpm". For DEB, "make deb".
 If compiling directly from the trunk, you need to run `./autogen.sh`
 
+Usage
+=====
+
+You can set the appearance and preferences, in the panel settings dialog.
+
+Click the icon to launch the Smart install/upgrade GUI, or middle-click
+the icon to check for upgrades. This will check using local cache only.
+
+To update channels from the network, use the menu item or dialog button
+(install the setuid program "smart-update" to avoid sudo and the dialog)
+
+Commands used
+=============
+
+The following table shows which Package Manager commands are being used:
+
+      +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
+P.M.  | CHECK FOR UPGRADES (local)       | UPDATE CHANNELS (network)        |
+      |==================================|==================================|
+Smart | smart upgrade --dump             | smart-update                     |
+      |----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
+Yum   | yum -C check-update              | su -c "yum check-update"         |
+      |----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
+APT   | apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade  | sudo apt-get update              |
+      +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
+
 How to report bugs?
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