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Currently we have got a quite outdated 0.2.4 version in Intrepid.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. Richard Hughes

    Tuesday, 02-09-08 16:40

    Luca: You can't run gtk+ applications as root without it being a massive security hole. It's as simple as that.

  2. Richard Hughes

    Tuesday, 02-09-08 16:39

    Vadim: PackageKit was never meant to be a single package format for all distros, for that is impossible. It's just a layer of abstract glue that lets you do some cool things, and write funky frontends.

  3. Vadim Peretokin

    Tuesday, 02-09-08 14:43

    Looks useless. All it does is put 1 gui on all package frameworks - not even allows you to create 1 package for all frameworks, which is what I was mislead to think.

    I don't care if the GUI looks the same on yast or whatever when I only use apt.

  4. Luca Venturini

    Tuesday, 02-09-08 14:38

    Installed on Hardy. The interface looks pretty slick, but right now it is useless: it asks for authorization using policykit (therefore, normal user authentication) and then complains the user has not necessary privileges (obviously). Root user is not displayed as a choice; neither is possible to run the application as root (it complains it should not be done and closes).

    Test made on Hardy i686, fresh install.

  5. asd asd

    Tuesday, 02-09-08 14:32

    could anyone please provide a kpackagekit-deb?

    http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KPackageKit?content=84745
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