[packagekit] ask help about calling yum plugin

[Richard Hughes]

2010/8/31 阿林 <wanglei403xa at 163.com>:
> I have a question to ask for a help. I have developed a yum plugin for a
> specific function. It works well. Now, I want to use the Packagekit-0.5.8
> package as the other operation for yum. But I found the relative binary
> Packagekit package does not call the yum plugin when I operate the gnome
> icon by mouse!

Right, PackageKit blacklists some yum plugins. You can see the list in
/etc/PackageKit/Yum.conf

> So I have to study the Packagekit src package. But there is no development
> document. I wonder if the Packagekit project provide the function like that
> in yum project? In other word, if it has a interface to user to add his or
> her function when call yum command?

The closest thing you have to a development document is
http://packagekit.org/gtk-doc/

> If it has no such interface , could any one give me some advice about how to
> add my code in it? If you have other suggestion, I pleased to get it! Thank
> you very much!

What does the plugin do out of interest?

Richard.