[packagekit] pkcon vs yum

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 28 03:42:22 PDT 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Would it be possible to make it install several packages ?
> 
> Well, with the current API, we would have to schedule a new PkClient for
> each package on the command line, which would suck a bit.
> 
> I think the key is to break API again in 0.1.11 and convert
> InstallPackage to InstallPackages like we did for UpdatePackage - then
> we can do all the installs as one transaction.
> 
> Richard.
> 
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'install' in the yum backend already suports multiple packageids

Tim



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