packagekit

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Richard Hughes a6c552f5bf yum: Remove the yum backend This has been broken since December 2013, and unmaintained for a much longer time than that.		2014-09-02 13:17:48 +01:00
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hif-backend.c	Use __attribute__(cleanup) to simplify memory cleanup	2014-08-27 18:19:18 +01:00
hif-backend.h	hif: Use new hawkey API for getting advisory details	2014-07-17 14:50:23 +02:00
Makefile.am	hawkey: Port to libhif and rename the backend to "Hif"	2014-05-07 15:23:50 +01:00
pk-backend-hif.c	yum: Remove the yum backend	2014-09-02 13:17:48 +01:00
README.md	yum: Remove the yum backend	2014-09-02 13:17:48 +01:00

README.md

Hif PackageKit Backend

It uses the following libraries:

libhif : for tieing all the libraries below together
librepo : checking and downloading repository metadata
hawkey : for depsolving
rpm : for actually installing the packages on the system

It also uses a lot of internal glue to hold all the pieces together. These have mostly been reused from the Zif project, hence all the Hif prefixes everywhere.

These are some key file locations:

/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/ : Used to store the repository metadata
/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/*/packages : Used for cached packages
/etc/yum.repos.d/ : the hardcoded location for .repo files
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg : the hardcoded location for the GPG signatures
$libdir/packagekit-backend/ : location of PackageKit backend objects

Things we haven't yet decided:

How to access comps data