[packagekit] Add-on Media

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 8 02:19:31 PDT 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Does PackageKit support installing a set of packages from a add-on 
>> media. If I have say a CD dump of updated packages/custom packages + 
>> metadata, would I be able to insert the media and have PackageKit do 
>> something intelligent with it?
> 
> Well, it understand ServicePacks -- if you run "man pkgenpack" you'll
> find out more about what they can do.

How do you figure out what is required to be in the service package? My 
use case is this:

A CD of third party packages which might depend on updated versions of 
packages in the base distribution.

Rahul



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