Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[Andrew Farris]

Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:54:20PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:47 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
>>> Does package kit provide a generic method to set up a yum repository?
>>> (obviously only applicable for RPM-based systems). Right now that is
>>> another one of my pain points: setting up repositories across
>>> suse/fedora/red hat, et al is not possible in a generic way even though
>>> they all support yum repositories.
>> how do you mean 'setup'. All of the above distros use createrepo to
>> setup a repo.
>>
>> or do you mean setup in the package mgmt software, sense?
> 
> I mean setup in the package mgmt software sense. As in setting up yum to
> pull from a repo. I'm wondering if it is in-scope for package kit to
> provide a backend-independent way of setting up the client side.
> --
> Michael

Well, there is a tool for enabling repositories.  Maybe that could be extended 
to include a dialog for retrieving a new repo configuration or editing one 
(although that seems like digging a bit deep for a basic user config UI).

System->Administration->Software Sources (this is 'pk-repo')

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