PackageKit 0.1.1 release!

New backends:

  • A SMART backend (James Bowes)
  • A PiSi backend (S.Çağlar Onur)

New features:

  • A better, easier to use website (Richard Hughes)
  • Added missing install-file.py so we can do local rpm installs (Tim Lauridsen)
  • Be ultra-paranoid about validating input from the user (Richard Hughes)
  • Send SIGQUIT and then SIGKILL after a little delay, so we can clean up the backends nicely by unlocking when we cancel (Richard Hughes)
  • Add resolve functionality in pkcon to allow non-package_id use, for instance 'pkcon remove gimp' now does the right thing (Richard Hughes)
  • Display a pulsing progress bar for no-progress-updates and percentage-update that is shown when using a console (James Bowes)
  • Remove the hard dependency on NetworkManager so other networking stacks can be used instead (S.Çağlar Onur, Richard Hughes)
  • Add a filter parameter for Resolve() so we can do the filtering in the spawned backend without duplicating code (James Bowes, Richard Hughes)
  • Substantial additions to the box backend (Grzegorz Dabrowski)
  • Add GetRepoList and RepoEnable to the yum backend (Tim Lauridsen)
  • Add bash completion script for pkcon (James Bowes)
  • Get the repo list for the aplm backend (Andreas Obergrusberger)

API changes:

  • Store the transaction database in /var/lib rather than /var/db (James Bowes)
  • Don't expose the private list in PkTaskList, instead use verified functions to ensure we can't corrupt data accidentally (Richard Hughes)
  • Don't export the private data array in PkClient or PkPackageListthis breaks API, so the library version has been bumped (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:

  • Fix the resolve method parameter passingnow pk-install-package should work correctly (James Bowes)
  • Fix all the copyright notices to be a standard GPL2+ boilerplate licence text (Tom Parker, Robin Norwood)
  • Dist the local apt headers so the apt backend can be compiled from a tarball rather than just from git (Richard Hughes)
  • Fix a 1-in-10 random daemon startup crash when backends do libnm_glib init, shutdown, init, shutdown repeatedly (Richard Hughes)
  • Added locking in the yum backend to allow simultaneous use of the yum command line tool or yum-updatesd (Tim Lauridsen)
  • Fix NoPercentageUpdates validity checking (James Bowes)

Tarball available here.

Published by

hughsie

Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.