[packagekit] yum backend

Ken VanDine ken at vandine.org
Thu Aug 30 19:30:04 PDT 2007


If I understand what GetUpdateDetails is for... I would say the from
and to versions as well as metadata about the update, security, needs
reboot, etc.

--Ken

On 8/30/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Does anybody know when the rawhide yum metadata is going to have:
>
> * security/normal information
> * "what changed in this update" information
>
> I've got code to select the updates one by one (see
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/pk-updates.png) but I
> need a way to get the data from the backend.
>
> What is sane to return for GetUpdateDetails(string=package_id)?
>
> string update_text
> string cve_url (clickable link)
> string restart_enum
>
> What else? We want to return data about the update for the specific
> package only.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard.
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