Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 17 12:56:28 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 23:33 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> I meant using PackageKit.
> 
> One would have hoped the yum backend would take anything that yum would
> take as an install option.  However in brief testing, this doesn't
> appear to be true :/
> 
> 
The yum backend only does what the PackageKit API want it to do, so
pk-install-file only install an local rpm
pk-install-package install a package from then available

So there is no magic req lookup in the pk-install-* tools at the moment, 
but there can be in the future.

Tim





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