[packagekit] PackageKit frontend documentation

[Sveta Anisimova]

Dear Richard,

Thank you so much for the prompt reply. It is very helpful indeed. We 
prefer  to have this application implemented with Python. I wonder 
whether you might have higher-level bindings for Python to avoid 
C-library invocation.

Thanks a lot again.

sveta

Quoting Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:41 -0500, Sveta Anisimova wrote:
>> I am working on linux autoupdate system implementation for large
>> institutional labs. One of the options would be to use PackageKit
>> system backends with a modified frontend functionality. References to
>> any documentation online which give an overview of methods
>> and functions used for rewriting PackageKit frontend are really
>> appreciated and would be of great help.
>
> Are you writing your application in C or some other language? The API
> documentation for libpackagekit (probably what you'll want to use) is
> generated with gtk-doc when you build the package, but yell if you want
> me to upload it somewhere for you to read. Most of the interesting
> methods for you will be methods on the PkClient gobject.
>
> You could probably put together a simple update frontend in a couple of
> hours that way.
>
> Also, if you checkout the gnome-packagekit source code, you can copy the
> UpdateSystem and GetUpdates functionality as we know it works.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> Richard.
>
>
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