[packagekit] User Interaction needed

Klaus Kaempf kkaempf at suse.de
Thu Mar 13 07:41:38 PDT 2008


* Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> [Mar 12. 2008 19:05]:
> 
> Now, what if I can't find CDROM 2 at this point? The transaction is half
> finished... Does zypp then rollback the changes as if the first CD had
> not been inserted?

What does PackageKit do if a package fails to install during a
transaction ?

RPM doesn't support this scenario. If a %pre or %post script fails,
you might end up with a half-installed package - all files are there
but inoperable.


Klaus
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