Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[Robin Norwood]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:57:48 +0000
Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:47 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > Firmware-tools uses this *extensively*. I would like to port
> > firmware-tools to use package-kit, but can't really, without this
> > function. (As opposed to maintaining instructions for apt, yum,
> > smart, rug, et al. currently.)
> 
> I've merged in a WhatProvides() abstract method into packagekit a few
> minutes ago. I'll add an example as pk-install-depends now, and also
> make pkcon fall back if there was no package match with pkcon.
> 
> This means pkcon install $random_provide should work as you wish.

Just to clarify, this is in the development version in git, not (yet)
in the version in Fedora.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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