PackageKit: Call for testing

Category: Ubuntu

The APT backend for PackageKit 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.

Currently we have got a quite outdated 0.2.4 version in Intrepid.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. Add the repository and install the packages packagekit and packagekit-gnome.

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

 

Update: I uploaded packages to the PPA which fix a problem with PolicyKit. Furthermore I fixed the reference to packagekit-gnome package above.

Update: I just upgraded the packages to 0.3.5 and filled a new freeze exception:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit/+bug/276264

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  1. Peter Wald

    Monday, 15-09-08 10:46

    Ich frage mich, warum Vorgänge wie das Abrufen einer Paketeliste auch nach der Beendigung der Desktop-Sitzung des Benutzers weiterverfolgt werden. Allein schon das Beenden der anfragenden Anwendung sollte den Vorgang stoppen.

  2. Peter Wald

    Monday, 15-09-08 10:41

    Bei mir hört "Installieren ubuntu-desktop (loading cache)" nie auf. Es blockiert einfach alle anderen Vorgänge ("Es wird auf andere Vorgänge gewartet")

  3. Lucky Hübner

    Monday, 15-09-08 10:33

    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:18: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
    warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
    INFO:Initializing APT backend
    INFO:Resolve(~installed,dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'firefox')], signature=dbus.Signature('s')))
    INFO:Resolve
    INFO:StatusChanged (query)
    INFO:NoPercentageUpdates ()
    INFO:PercentageChanged (101)
    DEBUG:Check apt cache and xapian database
    DEBUG:Open APT cache
    INFO:StatusChanged (loading-cache)
    INFO:AllowCancel (0)
    INFO:Finished (success)
    INFO:WhatProvides(~installed,any,firefox)
    INFO:StatusChanged (query)
    INFO:NoPercentageUpdates ()
    INFO:PercentageChanged (101)
    DEBUG:Check apt cache and xapian database
    INFO:AllowCancel (0)
    INFO:ErrorCode (not-supported,This function is not implemented in this backend)
    INFO:Finished (failed)

  4. Olivier Guéry

    Friday, 12-09-08 10:06

    Hello,
    I tried the install on hardy from ppa and I can run packagekit but :

    It I can’t update the package apt-xapian-index (I’m « stick » at 0.6). Synaptic complain about python-apt (it should be 0.7.6 but I’m still with 0.7.4ubuntu7.3).

    Regards,
    Olivier
    PS : sorry for reporting this here, but it seem’s that you don’t use the launchpad bug tracker.

  5. Sebastian Heinlein

    Wednesday, 10-09-08 11:46

    @Lucky:

    Which version of packagekit and Ubuntu do you use?

    Could you please run "sudo /usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py -td" and run the pkcon command again. This will get you a lot of more information.

    If you had provided a valid email address I would have send you one.
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