PackageKit support in upcoming Mandriva 2009.0
One of the new feature in Mandriva 2009.0 will be PackageKit support. As of today, PackageKit now have support for an urpmi backend ! This backend have been developped by Mandriva, and is already one of the backend supporting the most features. Except yum ( and eventually zypp ), urpmi is the backend which have the most features support as seen on PackageKit backend feature matrix and thus even compared to apt !
People willing to test PackageKit under Mandriva just need to use Cooker, or waiting for the next Mandriva 2009.0 release. Then they will just have to install the packagekit package, and kpackagekit ( KDE frontend ) or gnome-packagekit ( Gnome/GTK frontend ). Presently theses packages are in the contrib repository, but they should be moved shortly in the main repository. Once done, you need to check that the default backend in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf is urpmi as follow :
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