Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[Robin Norwood]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:03:21 +0000
Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:41 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > I was sort of hoping that /usr/bin/system-install-packages would
> > eventually be implemented using PackageKit.  That's what had been
> > hinted at previously.
> 
> (sorry for the delay, no Internet access all weekend)
> 
> Already done. You just have to use:
> 
> pk-install-file $THE_FILE_NEEDED
> or
> pk-install-package $THE_PACKAGE_NEEDED
> 
> We probably need to symlink system-install-packages and use the
> alternatives mechanism for backwards compat.

We're doing this in gnome-packagekit-0.1.9-3, btw.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
Red Hat, Inc.

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