[packagekit] PackageKit 0.5.6 released!

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 02:10:53 PST 2010


Today I released PackageKit 0.5.6.

Version 0.5.6
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Released: 2010-01-05

Translations:
 - Fix a trivial German translation typo (Matthias Clasen)

Backends:
 - yum: show a message to the user if the repo could not be reached.
Fixes rh#531838 (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: include PackageKit in the list of essential packages (Richard Hughes)

New Features:
 - Add PkProc, to monitor the running applications on the system
(Richard Hughes)
 - Add a new error enum 'failed-due-to-running-process' for future
code (Richard Hughes)
 - Add functionality to check if certain running applications should
prevent an update (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Fix a crash where the extra library check file callbacks had the
wrong signature (Richard Hughes)
 - Correct the transaction RequireRestart extra callback to fix a
potential crash (Richard Hughes)
 - Ensure to set the correct error if getting the transaction ID
fails. Fixes rh#551546 (Richard Hughes)
 - cnf: Ensure we send error messages to stderr, not stdout. Fixes
rh#545220 (Richard Hughes)

Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Thanks to all those who made this possible.

Richard.



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