Blog post about package management (aimed at fedora)

[Tim Lauridsen]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:43 +0200, dragoran wrote:
>   
>> Richard Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> I've blogged about package management in Fedora (and how it sucks in
>>> other distros too) and also discussed abstract per-system package
>>> management over DBUS interfaces.
>>>
>>> I would appreciate feedback on
>>> http://hughsient.livejournal.com/31429.html 
>>>       
>> "Do we have to make the API asynchronous?"
>> YES!!!
>> the best way to fix the progressbar hangs is multithreading.
>> let the gui draw its stuff, while a background thread does the real work.
>> yumex afaik works this way.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately, introducing threading into an environment (rpm + sqlite)
> which wasn't designed with threading in mind is a recipe for lots of ...
> interesting problems.
>
> Jeremy
>
>   
Yes, running yum actions in a background tread was a world of pain, so i 
have reversed the process and running the yum actions in the foreground 
and having a background thread refresh the gui.

Tim
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