[SailfishDevel] Zypper and PackageKit

Marcin M. marmistrzmar at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 18:09:39 UTC 2014


And is it possible to make packagekit show bytes (or x 10^n bytes) progress
just like apt or zypper?

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Marcin


2014/1/4 Mikael Hermansson <mike at 7b4.se>

> On Saturday 04 January 2014 20.07.52 Martin Grimme wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2014/1/4, Andrey Kozhevnikov <coderusinbox at gmail.com>:
> > > afaik pakckagekit have easy queue management
> >
> > Yes, PackageKit can queue transactions, and it can be operated without
> > root privileges (which zypper would require). Sailfish/Nemo uses
> > zypper's libzypp as backend for PackageKit, however.
> > AFAIK zypper doesn't come preinstalled on Sailfish, but can be installed.
>
> One reason for packagekit is is to make "platform independent" package
> manager
> pkcon working both for RPM, DEB maybe more....
>
> its a freedesktop project see:
>
> http://www.packagekit.org/index.html
>
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