[packagekit] Suggestion

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Richard Hughes pisze:
> On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 15:05 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
>>> If it's the later, I think some sort of integration with a "service
>>> pack" type CD would be useful, but only when we've identified valid
>> use
>>> cases and sane interactions for this. Try not to think about what
>> the
>>> tools can (or could) do, think about what the user is trying to
>> achieve.
>>> Ideas welcome.
>> Michael Vogt worked on add-on cds for Ubuntu. Perhaps it is worth a
>> chat.
>
> Sure. I think the ideal use case is this:
>
> [1] insert CD with service pack .debs on
> [2a] cdrom is autorun by gnome-volume-manager and the location passed to
> gnome-packagekit to initiate a service pack update
> [2b] gnome-packagekit watches for a cdrom to be inserted
> [2c] gvfs does the new-fangled thing for autolaunch
> [3] gnome-packagekit asks the user to confirm it's a valid update CD and
> asks for PolicyKit auth and runs the ServicePack() backend method on the
> CD device.
>
> For [2] we'll need an identifier that can be recognized by PackageKit,
> maybe just the presence of the file packagekit-update.txt on the CDROM
> or DVD. I don't know what the new gvfs world order is on this, ideas
> welcome.
>
> For [3] we can make the ServicePack() method just do something like "rpm
> -Fvh $LOCATION/updates/*.rpm" (backend specific obviously)
>
> I really think this could rock. Ideas?
>
> Richard.
>
>
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ServicePack sounds MS-like, but everything is good :) .