Some things to focus testing on for F9Beta

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:26 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         
>         Rawhide doesn't have the metadata that tells packagekit what
>         packages
>         requires a reboot - this is something that will only work when
>         f9 comes
>         out.
> 
> Uhm... can we fake a test of this in the meantime?  I'm always a
> little wary of having a feature that is only testable with 'gold'
> metadata.   Can you rig up a test repo with a dummy package with the
> correct metadata to issue a reboot is needed notification?
> 

You can test it using the dummy backend:

sudo killall packagekitd
sudo /usr/sbin/packagekitd --backend=dummy
pkcon refresh