Here's some stuff that now works properly: Notice the new checkbox to cut the repo list down to a sane size? Notice the new 'All packages' group? Now we tell you if we add deps! In other, more interesting news, there's now a new library on the street, libpackagekit-gnome. This shared library will allow integration … Continue reading New PackageKit coolness
Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.10. PackageKit release notes. gnome-packagekit release notes. Tarballs available here.
PackageKit Google Summer of Code Ideas: urpmi backend for Mandriva portage backend for Gentoo ports backend for FreeBSD Rewrite opyum or APTonCD to support libpackagekit and be distribution neutral Design a KDE front-end suitable for upstream inclusion Profiling for memory and speed with a security review of the packagekitd daemon Design of an end-to-end test … Continue reading PackageKit Google Summer of Code Ideas
New versions! PackageKit release notes.gnome-packagekit release notes. Tarballs available here.
Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.8. You really want to update to these if you are using 0.1.7 – which had a nice bug causing pk-update-icon to crash.PackageKit release notes and gnome-packagekit release notes. Tarballs available here.
On Sunday I'll be giving a presentation on PackageKit at FOSDEM. It's scheduled for 3:00pm until 3:45pm in Janson. It would be great to see anyone interested in PackageKit there. After the presentation they'll be questions, and then in the evening, beers.
Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.7. PackageKit release notes.gnome-packagekit release notes. Tarballs available here.
Microsoft Windows has the concept of service packs, i.e. a large package containing all the fixes to date. Service packs are really useful if a computer only has no (or slow) network connectivity and the whole system has to be updated on multiple computers. I think some sort of PackageKit integration with a “service pack” … Continue reading Service Packs and PackageKit
Package spec files and PackageKit backends are rarely localised. This doesn't matter much if you speak English, but really sucks if you don't. We can't fix all the distro tools and all the packages in the world, but we can do our best to be clever: This is with my locale set to “en_GB” and … Continue reading Cool localisation stuff happening with PackageKit
Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.6. PackageKit release notes.gnome-packagekit release notes.