[packagekit] Triggering EULA dialog?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Feb 5 13:43:26 PST 2009



Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
> <dmacvicar at suse.de> wrote:
>> Dan Kegel wrote:
>>> Egads.  You mean it's not even inside the package?
>>> If somebody takes the .rpm elsewhere, and installs it,
>>> the EULA won't be displayed?
>>> That's surprising.
>> Sure, it is not an rpm feature, but a package manager feature.
>> Also features like the package manager only displaying updates that
>> require a reboot or restart of the package management engine are usually
>> on top of rpm, and exposed in the metadata.
> 
> Does the same thing go for flagging a package as containing
> a security update?

Yes. That is part of the repository metadata and not the package as well.

Rahul











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