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nesl247

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Packagekit Repo

This is a repo that contains packages for http://www.packagekit.org . Currently, the packages are useless, as the pacman backend is not complete (tradiaz is creating it as we speak).

Also, thanks to tradiaz for the initial policykit-git and packagekit-git pkgbuilds.

[packagekit]
Server = http://arch.nesl247.org/packagekit/i686

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

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Re: Packagekit Repo

correct me if i'm wrong, but glade isn't a dependency for gnome-packagekit, right? at least the files are only built against libglade, so this should be the dependency, not glade.

Cerebral

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Re: Packagekit Repo

I'd also like to give a big shout to tradiaz for picking this up - I think the ideas behind PackageKit are decently solid, even if its philosophy is a bit different from Arch's.  I was originally looking at working on this, but never found the time to really get anything significant accomplished, and tradiaz really stepped up.

AFAIK the packages aren't useless - according to the head dev's blog it has search/install/remove functionality.

                  | conary | yum | apt | box | alpm |
-----------------------------------------------------
refresh-cache     |   X    |  X  |  X  |  X  |      |
get-updates       |   X    |  X  |     |  X  |      |
update-system     |        |  X  |     |     |      |
search-name       |   X    |  X  |  X  |  X  |  X   |
search-details    |        |  X  |  X  |  X  |      |
search-file       |        |  X  |  X  |  X  |      |
search-group      |        |     |     |     |      |
install           |        |  X  |     |  X  |  X   |
remove            |        |  X  |     |  X  |  X   |
get-depends       |        |  X  |     |     |      |
get-requires      |        |     |     |     |      |
get-description   |   X    |  X  |  X  |  X  |      |
get-update-detail |        |     |     |     |      |

stonecrest

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Registered: 2005-01-22

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Re: Packagekit Repo

What's "box"?

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Cerebral

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Re: Packagekit Repo

http://teeveenix.org/news/early-steps

Seems to be the "Teeveenix" package manager, from what I can tell by googling.

nesl247

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Re: Packagekit Repo

baze, will be fixed when I update the packages again which should be today/tomorrow.

Cerebral

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Re: Packagekit Repo

http://teeveenix.org/news/early-steps

Seems to be the "Teeveenix" package manager, from what I can tell by googling.

And I was wrong.  According to the PackageKit backends page, it's actually for Pingwinek Linux

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-10-04 13:22:10)

tradiaz

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Registered: 2007-03-25

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Re: Packagekit Repo

Does installing/removing packages work for you?
Since I have a new arch installation it's broken for me....

baze

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Re: Packagekit Repo

i'm even having trouble getting this to work at all

i installed the stuff, added consolekit to the DAEMONS and "session  optional  pam_ck_connector.so" to /etc/pam.d/login
how can i tell policykit that my user has rights to do anything? adding my user to the group polkit doesn't help.
when i run packagekitd with sudo, pk-application works, but when i try to run it with my normal user, it just tells me i don't have met the policies.

nesl247

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Re: Packagekit Repo

baze, right now, I'm still trying to work on getting all that stuff working. Consolekit/Policykit isn't something that is easy to setup it seems.

tradiaz

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Registered: 2007-03-25

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Re: Packagekit Repo

It'd be interesting how to open a new ck-session with "su".
I tried "session        optional        pam_ck_connector.so" and "required" in the according pam configuration file
but it doesn't work. Whereas logging in as root in the tty works.
So far I've not been able to start pk-application and packagekitd with an appropriate ck-session.

Edit: Ok, I'm using a gnome root session now editing the source as user. I'd be happy if anyone has an idea how to fix that though.

Last edited by tradiaz (2007-10-19 17:14:47)

venky80

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Re: Packagekit Repo

is this still alive?

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ilembitov

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Re: Packagekit Repo

Can't see any real need for packagekit in ArchLinux as long as it is not a part of GNOME or other DE (I mean, if you had to hack that stuff hardly in order to get it to work without PK). Pacman seems to do the work just fine. PackageKit offers some other things, like automatic codec install, etc., but are they needed on a distro like Arch? Perhaps, if only someone were to make a user-friendly distro based on Arch, he would need PackageKit...

onestep_ua

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Re: Packagekit Repo

is this still alive?

You can find build files for these packages in AUR, just search for 'packagekit'.

venky80

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Re: Packagekit Repo

is this still alive?

You can find build files for these packages in AUR, just search for 'packagekit'.

Ya it installed fine, but other than see packages I could not really do anything else, are you the only packagekit dev working on alpm, I thought it will be scrapped for just pacman backend

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onestep_ua

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Re: Packagekit Repo

Ya it installed fine, but other than see packages I could not really do anything else, are you the only packagekit dev working on alpm, I thought it will be scrapped for just pacman backend

Yes, AFAIK there are no other active developers. As I said in another thread, any help will be greatly appreciated, so we can make PackageKit work as you expect it to work.

niadh

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Re: Packagekit Repo

If this project is still going I'd be interested in helping, I know I'm a new user, but I've just tried out Arch, am loving it, and I love being able to dig about system internals if I want to, but I don't always wanna open the terminal if I cant be bothered to.

Also I'm getting into gtk development and have done some python gtk before and would like to continue working with gtk and learning some C/C++ again, so if help would be welcome I'd like to help out if I can.