Regarding updating packages using Packagekit

As of now, it seems that every time we launch gnome-packagekit from
the in Fedora, it has to query and ask for the packagelist from the
internet. On the other hand, if the list once downloaded, if saved on
the user's computer can make it available to him/her on opening
gnome-packagekit (just like synaptic package manager in Ubuntu). This
would enable the user to view the list of available packages even when
offline.

Also, when downloading packages packagekit downloads the packages from
one mirror. Can it be done so that a package and its dependencies be
simultaneously downloaded from multiple mirrors, also considering the
bandwidth and probably saving time. This idea originates from the fact
that most download managers create multiple port connections to enable
fast downloads. Thus if packagekit is made to download using multiple
ports, maybe the downloading can be made faster.

I am keen to know if something of this sort can be worked upon.

Regards,
Ashwini

Re: Regarding updating packages using Packagekit

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 00:09 +0530, Ashwini Dhiman wrote:
> As of now, it seems that every time we launch gnome-packagekit from
> the in Fedora, it has to query and ask for the packagelist from the
> internet. On the other hand, if the list once downloaded, if saved on
> the user's computer can make it available to him/her on opening
> gnome-packagekit (just like synaptic package manager in Ubuntu). This
> would enable the user to view the list of available packages even when
> offline.

Well, we already do cache the update list, but we don't cache the
details. As soon as you start caching this level of detail it makes it
very hard to ensure cache-consistency. Also, the daemon quits after a
few minutes to save resources, and so the update list is then lost.

> Also, when downloading packages packagekit downloads the packages from
> one mirror. Can it be done so that a package and its dependencies be
> simultaneously downloaded from multiple mirrors, also considering the
> bandwidth and probably saving time. This idea originates from the fact
> that most download managers create multiple port connections to enable
> fast downloads. Thus if packagekit is made to download using multiple
> ports, maybe the downloading can be made faster.

Well, this is possible in the backend, but I don't think any package
manager supports this parallel mode of operation. There's actually some
code in git (I forget which branch) that expands the API to cope with
multiple sub-transactions overlapping, but that branch is quite old now.
I'm not sure how much the GUI does the right thing in this case.

Richard.

PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.4.3 released!

Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.4.3.

PackageKit release notes:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/packagekit/tree/NEWS

gnome-packagekit release notes:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/gnome-packagekit/tree/NEWS

Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Thanks to all those who made this possible.

Richard.

PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.3.14 released!

Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.3.14 (stable).
Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Richard.

Where to report bugs?

Hi,

is http://bugs.freedesktop.org for PackageKit only or can I use it for 
reporting packagekit-qt and KPackageKit bugs as well?

Thanks in advance
Thomas

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Thomas Göttlicher
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) 

Re: Where to report bugs?

Hi
PackageKit-Qt is part of PackageKit now, so I guess you should use 
http://bugs.freedesktop.org for it. KPackageKit is part ok KDE AFAIK, 
but I don't know if there's a module in KDE's bugtracker yet (and I 
don't know if there's a packagekit-qt module either, or if I'm the 
maintainer. Richard ?).

Cheers
Adrien

Thomas Goettlicher a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> is http://bugs.freedesktop.org for PackageKit only or can I use it for 
> reporting packagekit-qt and KPackageKit bugs as well?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Thomas
>
>
>   

Re: Where to report bugs?

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:04:54 am Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> PackageKit-Qt is part of PackageKit now, so I guess you should use
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org for it. KPackageKit is part ok KDE AFAIK,
> but I don't know if there's a module in KDE's bugtracker yet (and I
> don't know if there's a packagekit-qt module either, or if I'm the
> maintainer. Richard ?).
Theres only a KPackageKit module in KDE's bugtracker.

On Tuesday 03 February 2009 04:04:54 am Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> PackageKit-Qt is part of PackageKit now, so I guess you should use
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org for it. KPackageKit is part ok KDE AFAIK,
> but I don't know if there's a module in KDE's bugtracker yet (and I
> don't know if there's a packagekit-qt module either, or if I'm the
> maintainer. Richard ?).
Theres only a KPackageKit module in KDE's bugtracker.

Re: Where to report bugs?

On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 10:04 +0100, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> Hi
> PackageKit-Qt is part of PackageKit now, so I guess you should use 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org for it.

I think so too.

> don't know if there's a packagekit-qt module either, or if I'm the 
> maintainer. Richard ?).

I would say for sure that Adrien is the maintainer of the qt bindings.
Whichever is good for Adrien is good for me. 

Richard.

error in make while installing gnome-packagekit

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<br><br>my version of package is 0.3.6 and the version of both packagekit and gnome-packagekit is the same (0.3.6)<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--Regards<br>--Pranjal Pandit<br>
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Re: error in make while installing gnome-packagekit

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 00:11 +0530, pranjal pandit wrote:
> my version of package is 0.3.6 and the version of both packagekit and
> gnome-packagekit is the same (0.3.6)

Ah, I see your error. You must be compiling with some extra distro
provided flags. You have two options:

1. remove the -WError line from configure.ac in your copy of
gnome-packagekit
2. remove the first definition of pk_client_cancel()
in /usr/include/PackageKit/packagekit-glib/pk-client.h

Either of these should work.

Richard.