Bug 468252

Summary: Sofware Log Viewer appears not to talk to the backend
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: gnome-packagekitAssignee: Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Bill Nottingham 2008-10-23 18:58:05 UTC 
Description of problem:

It doesn't track any changes not done through PK. Arguably, it should.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-packagekit-0.3.8-1.fc10.x86_64
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2008-10-24 09:03:34 UTC 
No, I don't think it should -- PK transactions have tons more detail that what we can glean from yum.log or the rpmdb, for instance the user, the duration, what packages were deps and what was the point of the transaction. For some backends we need to know the transaction ID, which is needed for audit or rollback. You just can't get that from yum or rpm.

Also, the point of the PK log viewer was to see all the high level stuff you've done or was done automatically, like openoffice installing clipart, or me installing kernel-devel.

If you users want to use yum or rpm, sure, that's no problem, but they don't get the GUI info in the log viewer. You can use pkcon on the command line, but if you use rpm or yum directly PK has no idea what's going on.