PackageKit policy: background and plans

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>
> otaylor wrote:
>
>> This actually is one of the big advantages of PackageKit - because the
>> installation is being done by a daemon rather than a process running in
>> your session, if the X session dies during package installation, you
>> won't be left with a half-completed transaction.
>
> To what extent are yum/rpm/packagekit "transactions" databasey enough
> so that they can actually be undone if the machine or process crashes
> midstream?

not enough. We can sometimes recover - it really depends on where it died 
:(


-sv