Bug#678311: [Debconf-devel] Bug#678311: apt-listchanges: debconf passthrough frontend for use with packagekit
Hello! I've added a patch to PackageKit which will set the environment var, so PackageKit is ready to use this feature. PackageKit *can* do background package upgrades, but this is disabled for Debian at time (we use apt itself) Changing the env var for background tasks would work, of course. Is there a chance to have this merged uploaded before freeze, as it is quite important for PK? Thank you for working on this! Cheers, Matthias 2012/6/20 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org: Thanks for the feedback. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 17:22:41 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: when using packagekit, which seems to be the way gnome is going for graphical package management nowadays, the apt-listchanges output doesn't go anywhere, and the gpk window just seems to hang. In order to fix that, it'd be nice if apt-listchanges could send its output using the debconf protocol so it could show up in the packagekit frontend. The below patch is a proof of concept to that effect. pk would have to set APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=debconf for this to work (it already sets APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND=none). packagekit and debconf maintainers cc:ed in case they have comments. I'm not too happy about the tempfile thing instead of just using db.subst to change the contents of the note, but I couldn't figure out how to SUBST something with newlines (it didn't seem to work when I tested with the dialog frontend, anyway). Does this have the potential to have security updates being applied in the background be blocked on the user pressing Ok on a news window? I don't know if packagekit does package upgrades in the background. If it does it should probably do it with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, which I think this would respect. It might be better to just email the changes. Right, the problem with that is you don't know if a mta is installed/configured, and even then if anybody will read local mail to root. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#678311: [Debconf-devel] Bug#678311: apt-listchanges: debconf passthrough frontend for use with packagekit
Julien Cristau wrote: when using packagekit, which seems to be the way gnome is going for graphical package management nowadays, the apt-listchanges output doesn't go anywhere, and the gpk window just seems to hang. In order to fix that, it'd be nice if apt-listchanges could send its output using the debconf protocol so it could show up in the packagekit frontend. The below patch is a proof of concept to that effect. pk would have to set APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=debconf for this to work (it already sets APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND=none). packagekit and debconf maintainers cc:ed in case they have comments. I'm not too happy about the tempfile thing instead of just using db.subst to change the contents of the note, but I couldn't figure out how to SUBST something with newlines (it didn't seem to work when I tested with the dialog frontend, anyway). Does this have the potential to have security updates being applied in the background be blocked on the user pressing Ok on a news window? It might be better to just email the changes. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#678311: [Debconf-devel] Bug#678311: apt-listchanges: debconf passthrough frontend for use with packagekit
Thanks for the feedback. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 17:22:41 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Julien Cristau wrote: when using packagekit, which seems to be the way gnome is going for graphical package management nowadays, the apt-listchanges output doesn't go anywhere, and the gpk window just seems to hang. In order to fix that, it'd be nice if apt-listchanges could send its output using the debconf protocol so it could show up in the packagekit frontend. The below patch is a proof of concept to that effect. pk would have to set APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=debconf for this to work (it already sets APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND=none). packagekit and debconf maintainers cc:ed in case they have comments. I'm not too happy about the tempfile thing instead of just using db.subst to change the contents of the note, but I couldn't figure out how to SUBST something with newlines (it didn't seem to work when I tested with the dialog frontend, anyway). Does this have the potential to have security updates being applied in the background be blocked on the user pressing Ok on a news window? I don't know if packagekit does package upgrades in the background. If it does it should probably do it with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, which I think this would respect. It might be better to just email the changes. Right, the problem with that is you don't know if a mta is installed/configured, and even then if anybody will read local mail to root. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
