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[Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, den 17.07.2013, 18:25 +0200 schrieb Matthias Klumpp:
> 2013/7/17 Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 17 July 2013 12:48, Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> My current implementation looks like this, FWIW:
> >
> > Looks about right to me.
> >
> >> On 0.7, this also requires backporting part of
> >> e37591aee89839b44119669b4faa2164511e051a from master, to call
> >> pk_transaction_set_full_paths before pk_transaction_obtain_authorization
> >> in pk_transaction_install_files; and of course it will require extra
> >> code to handle the InstallPackages case when I get that far.  But the
> >> general idea is simple enough.
> >
> > e37591aee89839b44119669b4faa2164511e051a is quite invasive and breaks
> > API, it can't be backported to the *stable* 0.7.x
> It will also not work on 0.7.x and or at least cause many funny side
> effects, because it assumes that previous work on backend-jobs is
> present. (and it has never been tested with 0.7)
> 
> >> Is there anything else I need to address before this could go into
> >> master?
> >
> > I think it's fine to push your patch to master.
> As long as plugins use this carefully, I don't see a problem either :-)
> 
> > I also think it might
> > be a good idea to update to 0.8.x in Ubuntu as otherwise it's going to
> > be very hard to backport all the functionality you need.
> I am trying that for ages now ^^ - The fastes way would be if Ubuntu
> would switch to PackageKit, and use Aptd only where it makes sense (=
> for the Software Center) - then you'd have 0.8.x immediately.
> Also, your PK patch obviously doesn't work with Aptd.
> There is work going on to get 0.8.x into Ubuntu, but this is blocked
> until Aptd supprts the 0.8.x API changes (which were quite invasive,
> but necessary).

I released aptdaemon 1.1 yesterday and will upload PackageKit 0.8.9 and
aptdaemon 1.1 before I am on vacations next week. So I will break your
plugin soon, Colin :(

My plan is to add a click worker to aptdaemon afterwards.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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