[packagekit] Adding support for "prepare" in transaction_flags

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Mon Jun 4 09:14:19 PDT 2012


Richard Hughes wrote:

> On 3 June 2012 19:36, Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, it's just that for apt it would mean download only...
> 
> Same for yum and zif, so you might have a point. Would anybody else do
> anything else except download? What about a source distro that needs
> to download, make but *not* sudo make install?

For a source distribution, you will still have to install the build
dependencies (requiring root) in order to complete the package build.
It could of course still prepare, by downloading distfiles and patches.

--anders



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