[packagekit] Newest Group?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 09:32:32 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 18:01 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> how do you know if a package is a new added package or a just updated
> package ?
> of cause you can do that if you have a older version installed.

Exactly.

> Ex.
> foo is not install, and foo-2.0 exist in the repo with a recent date,
> but you have no way to see if the package is new added or newly
> update, you
> can just see it is updated recently.
> if foo-1.0 is installed then you know that foo-2.0 is an update.
> 
> We can define that 
> search-group none GROUP_RECENT should return recent non installed
> packages.

Agree.

> but what about:
> 
> search-group installed GROUP_RECENT
> 
> what should it return ?.

Maybe the last few packages you have installed? ;-)

Richard.





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