[packagekit] Shutdown packagekitd manually

[Stefan Haas]

Richard Hughes schrieb:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:49 +0200, Stefan Haas wrote:
>   
>> as long as packagekitd is running the packagemanagement system is
>> locked (at least on the zypp side). No matter if some transaction is
>> runningor pk is idle. So the user has to wait till shutdown timeout
>> period is over or he has to kill packagekitd.
>> Therefore a dbus call to shutdown the backend would be very handy. 
>> Needless to say, that if a transaction is running this call will fail.
>>     
>
> Well, I guess what you are trying to do is shutdown packagekit because
> you're using a native tool. One easy way to do this would put a DBUS
> method on the interface - or if you just want just
> "touch /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf" -- the latter works as the
> daemon things it's been upgraded and exits as soon as the last
> transaction has finished. Yell if you want a DBUS method.
>
> Richard.
>   
 Right. I think a DBUS method would be the most intuitive and convenient 
solution.

Stefan

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