Exported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/245654
Reason: Review Patch. Quite useful
further details:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration

Yes, indeed.

So the presented patch fulfills your needs?

Than forget what I stated (it's because I'm not really familiar with the  
output that smart produces). If the package is in the rpmdb it is indeed 
not needed to know from where they came from.

Could you elaborate?

The packages on "Upgrades" and "Required by" are already installed, which means
they belong to rpm-sys. Why do you need to see where they came from?

It's better.  But now only the leading package shows the channel tags.  
Depend packages do not show their channel info:  
  
 Upgrading packages (25): 
  alsa-1.0.10-0.pm.1@i586 [packman-apt] 
    Upgrades: 
      alsa-1.0.9-23@i586 (upgraded) 
    Required By: 
      alsa-tools-1.0.10-0.pm.0@i586 (installed) 
      k3b-0.12.10-3.pm.0@i586 (installed) 
      gthumb-2.6.8-2.guru.suse100@i686 (installed) 
      alsa-devel-1.0.10-0.pm.1@i586 (installed) 
      freeciv-2.0.7-1.pm.1@i586 (installed) 
      alsa-firmware-1.0.10-0.pm.0@noarch (installed) 
      libffmpeg0-0.4.9-4.pm.cvs20060122@i586 (installed) 
      amarok-1.3.8-1.guru.suse100@i686 (installed) 
      libxine1-1.1.1-0.pm.2@i586 (installed) 
  alsa-devel-1.0.10-0.pm.1@i586 [packman-apt] 
    Upgrades: 
      alsa-devel-1.0.9-23@i586 (upgraded) 
    Requires: 
      alsa-1.0.10-0.pm.1@i586 (installed) 
 
 
If the dependend packages show their channel as well, this would 
be perfect.

I'm sending a patch that adds the channel information for a package while
running a transaction with "--explain".

It's just a personal test. No guarantee that it will come into Smart.

Can you please check if it's enough information for you?

Discussed on opensuse list.   
 
It is not possible to determine from which (apt) components the packages 
are being selected during installation or upgrade.  It would be good 
if this information was provided. 
 
 
> > > Now from which repositories are these packages installed.  With apt  
> > > does can be deducted from the version number.  Would smart be able to  
> > > put the component name behind the rpm name?  
>  
> smart upgrade --urls  
  
this does it:  
linux:~ # smart install --urls gramps  
Loading cache...  
Updating cache...                     
############################################### [100%]  
  
Computing transaction...  
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/apt4rpm/10.0/gramps-2.0.9-0.suse1000.rb1.i586.rpm  
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.base/gtksourceview-1.4.1-2.i586.r  
  
> (or)  
> smart upgrade --explain  
  
--explain does not, it would if it would include the 'alias' .  
BTW: --explain is not correct.  As I still don't know how it works, it's only   
more verbose.  So please change it into --verbose....  
  
.....  
Installed packages (8):  
  gtksourceview-1.4.1-2@i586  
    Required By:  
      python-gnome-extras-2.11.3-3@i586 (installed)  
.....