[packagekit] Res: KPackagekit in Kubuntu

[dantti85-pk at yahoo.com.br]

Hi,
It's nice to hear someone packaging the app so it becomes more popular
and we gain more contributions and user feedback.
About the licence i'm wondering why it needs to be GPL2 as far as i know
qt4 will use GPL3 so KDE4 would problably do the same...
but we can put all the code to GPL2 if  for now is a problem..

The update ui really doesn't do anything except refresh package cache.
the problem is that tree models are a little more complicated to work
and i'm thinking in re-write it.

The notifications about new packages is already started but there's nothing 
usefull yet.
I'm with tons of things to do these days and this will probably be working at 
the end of the month. This will also have a systray but the idea that i had
for this is a little complicated to do with just a few hours programming.

Ah, one last thing if you can send to Richard the packaging specs he said
he could also do packages for Fedora rawhide.

Thanks,
Daniel.



----- Mensagem original ----
De: Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com>
Para: packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org
Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 17 de Julho de 2008 6:23:38
Assunto: [packagekit] KPackagekit in Kubuntu

Hi, I've packaged libpackagekit-qt and kpackagekit for Kubuntu Intrepid.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~jr/+archive

It's working really well, thanks for working on it Adrien and Daniel.

Before I upload it to the main Ubuntu archive there is an inconsistency in the 
licencing that needs fixed, the COPYING file is GPL 3 but the code is GPL 2.  I 
think it would be best to change it to GPL 2 since that would allow it to be 
put into KDE's SVN which would help speed up distro adoption.

The upgrade module doesn't do anything and the settings module only lets me 
set the download interval, I wonder if that is due to limitations in the apt 
backend.

It needs policykit of course, have you looked into using the policykit-kde 
code in http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/PolicyKit-kde/ ?  I 
couldn't get it working.

Thinking about what would need to be done for it to be a complete distro 
package management tool, we currently have a systray applet that shows if 
there are updates needing processed, an application for installing a single 
package (used by a script from Amarok to install MP3 support for example) and 
a simplified install interface which only lists GUI applications (currently 
Ubuntu specific but there's no paticular reason it needs to be).  Does any of 
that interest you as developers?

Jonathan

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