Testing PackageKit service packs

[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 06/15/2009 03:09 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> 
> > 
> > from what I understand, this could replace the offline repos we make to
> > use at install fests? 
> 
> Yes
> 
> > I'm interested in contributing to this. Can you
> > please tell me how to test it etc? 
> 
> You need Fedora 11 or Rawhide. The command line app is pkgenpack.
> 
> If you prefer the GUI,
> 
> # yum install gnome-packagekit-extra
> 
> Go to Applications => System Tools => Service Pack Creator
> 
> Select "Create an archive of a specific package"
> 
> You can give one of more packages separated by commas. It will create a
> <whateverpackagename.servicepack> and you can copy that to anybody
> running Fedora 11, click on it and install it.  The service packs are
> merely tarballs with a package and its dependencies and a single
> metadata.conf. You can extract it if needed with
> 
> tar xvf foo.servicepack
> 
> There are some bugs you might run into. I have reported some of them and
> got a few fixed in Rawhide already. Test and send your feedback via
> bugzilla or packagekit mailing list.
> 
> Rahul
> 

okay.. Ill do it when I have F11 on my system (still running 10)..

thanks.. 
-- 
regards,

Ankur