[packagekit] package reinstallation

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 00:31:33 PDT 2014


On 8 July 2014 07:34, Michal Minář <miminar at redhat.com> wrote:
> As mentioned before by Daniel N., calling install() with older version
> is sufficient for me. Perhaps some 'Force' flag could be added that
> would help backend decide whether reinstall or downgrade shall be
> allowed.

Something like ALLOW_DOWNGRADE as a transaction flag would be
acceptable to me, although it would need a new PolicyKit action to go
along with it.

Richard.


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