2014-06-02 18:46 GMT+02:00 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@redhat.com>:
On 06/02/2014 02:51 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com> writes:
Thomas, maybe we can add a cancelDeployment() routine, but ensure that
clients are aware that DeploymentUncancellable or something is an
expected possibility.

Note that this has larger implications, notably the D-Bus server must not block while performing a deploy() operation to be able to act on the cancelDeployment() call.

> Is there anything more to these than convenience?  E.g., can I just
> take the 'packages' properties and use it with the package
> management API of my choice?  If we already have a good UI for the
> package management API, with highly polished progress reporting and
> error handling, say, it is probably better to just use it instead
> of trying to polish this API to the same level.

Right, these are convenience. In the case of Cockpit, I'd expect you
to use your own package-installation tool.

If the very first user of the high-level API decided to instead bypass it and perform low-level operations, that’d be a very bad sign.  Could we instead learn from the cockpit API and add similar level of polish here?
   Mirek