[packagekit] How do you determine if an update needs a reboot/logout?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sat Jul 31 00:25:47 PDT 2010


On 31 July 2010 09:05, enclair <wifienclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you know if yum takes also into account these metadata?

No. Yum just does the action.

> Another unrelated question: is it possible to show the full output of the
> backends PackageKit is using?

No, we don't proxy that to the application.

> For example, I think PackageKit uses something like "yum update" in Fedora
> to update the packages.
> I'd like an option to show in a window the full output of what yum does.

We can't really do that, and I think it would be a very bad user
experience to do such a thing.

Richard



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