[packagekit] blocked updates

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 00:31:31 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:50 -0700, dantti85-pk at yahoo.com.br wrote:
> Hi, i just updated my local packagekit
> and i saw that the apt backend was fixed for the
> kind of updates.
> the strange thing was that it had a blocked
> update, looking at the enums i saw that it
> exists but gnome-packagekit didn't have a 
> 
> case PK_INFO_ENUM_BLOCKED:
> text = g_strdup_printf (ngettext ("%i bloked update", "%i blocked
> updates", number), number);

Ahh, right, thanks.

> so i added,
> but what is a blocked update anyway!? is like a conflicting update?

An update you can't install for one reason or another. I don't think we
should use blocked updates if we can help it, as they're not very easy
to understand from the user.

Richard






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