[packagekit] Dropping support for rollback?

[Andres Vargas - zodman]

yes conary support rollbacks :) its hard to code because internally the
actions of conary divide on Jobs

one job can be a set of actions (update/install/remove)

So if i install packagekit

it install packagekit:devel packagekit:runtime as a Job 1
update packagekit:config as a Job 2


So the rollbacks its not remove installed/updated packages its revert a set
of jobs what as applied to system. for back to a before state of Job.


Im have understand the rollbacks its controlled by packagekit reverting
install/updates packages. Conary not depend from Packagekit for do a
rollbacks. Depends of the Set of jobs applied.

I think a feature for support rollbacks not doing for packagekit( send
signals, but not do the actions. ) only by the backend will be great.

other stuff is if conary install packages from cli (without help of
packagekit) the packagekit database not updated. Because Packagekit its a
GUI fronted of conary....

Can code a some plugin for add packagekit integration with conary from
conary cli. But its more work its pending.




On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir.lamouri at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think any of the backends support rollback, even the conary
> > one. There's quite a bit of code in the server and clients to support
> > this, but if nothing is going to use it I think it makes sense to rip
> > it out. Comments?
>
> I don't really see the need of rollback for the user. For sure, it
> can't be something to be used as easily as CTRL+Z (undo/redo). So if
> it has to exit it can be something in a menu.
> In addition, I don't see a lot of things that should be rollbacked:
> installl/remove and enable/disable repository ? In this case, I think
> the client can implement that himself. If the user install a package,
> he can add in a menu: 'Uninstall foo'. If it has been uninstalled, it
> will be'Reinstall foo'. The same thing for repositories.
>
> What do you think about this ? :)
>
> Mounir
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