[packagekit] yum backend system-update

[Tim Lauridsen]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 30/08/2007, Tim Lauridsen <tla at rasmil.dk> wrote:
>   
>> I have changed the yum backend to use package instead of data on
>> download, but not on installation/update/remove, because the package
>> information is not available on
>> deletion and cleanup (the second part of the update, there removes
>> leftovers from the updated package).
>>     
>
> Sure, could you still use Package please, and only fill in the details
> that are known, for instance:
>
> package<tab>1<tab>gnome-keyring-manager;;;<tab> then even if we can't
> display "Removing GNOME Keyring Manager" we can still display
> "Removing gnome-keyring-manager"
I will do that.
> .
>
>   
>> I also changed the yum backend to update the percentage more resent on
>> download / install / remove / update, but it need the latest upstream
>> yum git code to work.
>>     
>
> No problem, I'm running and building yum from git.
>
>   
>> (yum >= 3.2.5), it will not break is using yum-3.2.4, but will not give
>> the extra percentage output.
>>     
>
> Sure, we can just up the deps on the srpm - but is there a way of
> finding the yum version at configure time? does yum install a
> pkgconfig file?
>   
this command will return the yum version installed on the system
python -c "import yum; print yum.__version__"

Tim
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