[packagekit] Doing the GPG auth dance

Robin Norwood rnorwood at redhat.com
Mon Apr 14 07:58:00 PDT 2008


On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:51:48 +0100
Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:48 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > If we let the calling application handle it, then we've got to add
> > code to do it even in programs like inkscape and openoffice, which
> > would suck massively.
> 
> There's now GPG handling code in libpackagekit-gnome, in the GpkClient
> object. I now want to add a EULA handler too.
> 
> What does a EULA consist of - I mean, what type should the signal be:
> 
> string=package_id
> string=vendor
> string=eula_legal_text
> 
> Does this cover everything you guys need? I also need to know what the
> UI should look like.

Seems like a vendor-supplied URL for more info would be a good idea -
not that it matters much to me, since Fedora does any EULA-dancing
post-install.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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