[packagekit] User Interaction needed

Klaus Kaempf kkaempf at suse.de
Thu Mar 13 13:36:38 PDT 2008


* Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> [Mar 13. 2008 20:49]:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:41 +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > What does PackageKit do if a package fails to install during a
> > transaction ?
> 
> Hmm. I guess emit a Package() with an InfoEnum of PK_INFO_ENUM_FAILED
> and just try to carry on. The user can be presented with a list of
> failed packages on the final screen on with a notification.
> 
> Does this do what you need?

So there is no rollback involved and you end with an incomplete
transaction.
Doing a rollback was requested earlier if changing media fails for
some reason. ;-)

What is preventing us from emitting a 'please insert DVD2' request
then ?

Klaus
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