1.5 - gnome-packagekit?

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/12/8 Reuben K. Caron <reuben at laptop.org>:
>> -Should we include gnome-packagekit to provide such functionality?
>> -Or would including it increase the complexities of managing
>> deployments?
>
> One disadvantage of doing this is that it would harm the use of
> olpc-update -- pristine updates would fail.

Would they fail? IME, what happens is that you just "lose" the
package. But rpm does break hardlinks correctly. IIRC,  there was a
proposal to cache the rpms (or just the names) and re-play the
installation after the first successful boot.



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