<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> PackageKit only tells the backend to install packages. The backend downloads packages by itself.<br> If I take the yum backend as an example, I'm not sure it's possible to tell it to only download packages...<br> <br> Cheers <br> Adrien<br> <br> Shishir Goyal a écrit : <blockquote cite="mid:12b48def0806201422i464e57fbu93988222fc086f9d@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:57 AM, <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mirttex85-pk@yahoo.com.br">mirttex85-pk@yahoo.com.br</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>Well,<br> >as far as i know pk does NOT download packages,<br> >the backend does.<br> >As each packager manager has different ways to download packages,</div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>(i.e. diferent download locations...).<br> >Imho the best way to servicepack stuff is a way like<br> >installFile(), you do the download and pk installs for you.<br> <br> >as i said i'm not pretty sure this is the way.<br> <br> >Daniel.<br> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div>Fine.<br> <br> I failed to quote the question it in a correct way. Apologies.<br> <br> How does yum backend download packages for PackageKit?<br> <br> I am trying to figure out the utility of yumdownloader when adding the method 'download packages' to yumBackend.py. How can it be used?<br> <br> Comments.<br> <br> Regards<br> --Shishir<br> <br>  <br> </div> </div> <br> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ PackageKit mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org">PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>