PackageKit: Part One (Upgrade to 2.3-devel)

Yesterday, I wrote a long post about PackageKit and pkcon. The general gist of the post is that the software isn’t ready for prime time. Richard Hughes was nice enough to respond and address some of my concerns, and to suggest that I download the development version posted on Monday to fedora-devel-list. Please note that 2.3 isn’t recommended for installation unless you’re brave… there’s some things that it does with yum’s sqlite database that may break your package database. It’s crash-prone (on my system, at least). Wait for an official update to be released if you’re not used to working with development-stage software.

There’s still some UI concerns that I have, which I’ll address in Part 2 at some point in the next few days…

The big thing from my concern is that the problem with the i386 rpms has been resolved in the 2.x branch. That was my main technical beef. The documentation issues have not been resolved.

We’ll work on it!