Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008, 16:01 -0700 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> Sebastian Heinlein [2008-09-02 12:05 +0200]:
> > The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently
> > in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. 
> 
> Awesome! Thanks for your work on that.
>
> I tested your current PPA. At first the upgrade failed, because
> packagekit-backend-apt conflicts file-wise with the old 0.2
> packagekit, so some Conlicts/Replaces: are in order.

Thanks. I added a conflict against packagekit <0.3 to
packagekit-backend-apt

I uploaded 0.3.3 into the PPA and renewed the feature freeze exception request.

Cheers,

Sebastian


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Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Heinlein [2008-09-02 12:05 +0200]:
> The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently
> in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. 

Awesome! Thanks for your work on that.

I tested your current PPA. At first the upgrade failed, because
packagekit-backend-apt conflicts file-wise with the old 0.2
packagekit, so some Conlicts/Replaces: are in order.

After that was fixed, and I killed the old daemons, I played around
with pkcon, and ran jockey trunk's test suite. Both worked fine.

Personally I'd love to see this in intrepid, it's so much more
complete, and pkcon sucks much less now (for example,
"pkcon install pmount" works now, whereas earlier versions just took a
package ID).

Martin

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Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Heinlein:
> The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently
> in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. 

I just uploaded packages which fix a PolicyKit issue.

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Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 23:50 -0500 schrieb Luke L:
> It's packagekit-gnome, not 'gnome-packagekit'.
> 
> Worked fine for me. Are we supposed to be critiquing the software? It
> was a bit minimalist, and the frames in the windows are not
> resize-able. It doesn't seem as full featured as Synaptic, though it
> has a good look to it. It's info area is better laid out, and a live
> search feature. The repo listing is better in Synaptic.
> 
> In short, I could see it being very useful and competitive with
> Synaptic, with a few tweaks and cleanups.

Currently it is not the question if to replace our existing tools. But
it is important to not miss the PackageKit interface on APT based
systems, since some upstream projects think about using it for
installing additional components.

Furthermore PackageKit only wants to target simply package manupiulation
tasks. It will never be a replacement for Synaptic, but could be used in
the language selector or gnome-app-install.

Cheers,

Sebastian


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Re: PackageKit: Call for testing

[Luke L]

It's packagekit-gnome, not 'gnome-packagekit'.

Worked fine for me. Are we supposed to be critiquing the software? It was a
bit minimalist, and the frames in the windows are not resize-able. It
doesn't seem as full featured as Synaptic, though it has a good look to it.
It's info area is better laid out, and a live search feature. The repo
listing is better in Synaptic.

In short, I could see it being very useful and competitive with Synaptic,
with a few tweaks and cleanups.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently
> in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit.
>
> Highlights of the 0.3.x series are:
>
>  * Search for codecs and mime type handlers
>  * Local file installation
>  * Change log for updates
>  * Group support
>  * Repository handling
>  * Notification of new distro releases
>  * A lot of bug fixes
>
> See the feature matrix for more infromation:
>
> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html
>
> Currently we have got a quite outdated 0.2.4 version in Intrepid.
> Furthermore sharing the same version would help to reduce maintenance
> burden, since Fedora plans to ship 0.3.2 in the next release. But before
> proposing a freeze exception I would like to have some feedback.
>
> So if you are interested in this piece of software and want to push
> packagekit forward please test it on your system and report bugs that
> you may encounter.
>
> You can find packages of the upcoming 0.3.2 release for Hardy and
> Intrepid in this Personal Package Archive:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~packagekit/+archive
>
> Add the repository and install the packages packagekit and
> gnome-packagekit.
>
> The new applications will appear in the System -> Administration menu.
>
> The obligatory screenshot:
>
>
> http://www.glatzor.de/fileadmin/files/screenshots/packagekit/Bildschirmfoto.png
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastian
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PackageKit: Call for testing

[Sebastian Heinlein]

The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently
in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. 

Highlights of the 0.3.x series are:

  * Search for codecs and mime type handlers
  * Local file installation
  * Change log for updates
  * Group support
  * Repository handling
  * Notification of new distro releases
  * A lot of bug fixes

See the feature matrix for more infromation:

http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html

Currently we have got a quite outdated 0.2.4 version in Intrepid.
Furthermore sharing the same version would help to reduce maintenance
burden, since Fedora plans to ship 0.3.2 in the next release. But before
proposing a freeze exception I would like to have some feedback.

So if you are interested in this piece of software and want to push
packagekit forward please test it on your system and report bugs that
you may encounter.

You can find packages of the upcoming 0.3.2 release for Hardy and
Intrepid in this Personal Package Archive:

https://launchpad.net/~packagekit/+archive

Add the repository and install the packages packagekit and
gnome-packagekit.

The new applications will appear in the System -> Administration menu.

The obligatory screenshot:

http://www.glatzor.de/fileadmin/files/screenshots/packagekit/Bildschirmfoto.png

Cheers,

Sebastian


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