[packagekit] packagekit: Branch 'master' - 14 commits

[Tim Lauridsen]

Robin Norwood wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:36 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>>> commit dd58b3bdda5b8f3909a5a931eed9c719b17625e3
>>> Author: Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com>
>>> Date:   Fri Jan 18 15:25:26 2008 -0500
>>>
>>>     First stab at daemonizing the yum backend.
>>>     
>>>     Provides a new class, daemonBackend.PackageKitBaseBackend which runs a gobject.Mainloop, and sends and receives signals over dbus.  Things left todo are:
>>>     
>>>     o Clean up naming of classes and methods.
>>>     o Work out what all of the dbus signals will actually be called
>>>       (temporary names are in place now)
>>>     o Actually wire up yumBackend to use it
>>>     
>>>     Submitting the code as-is for comments.
>>>
>> Robin, this is looking good, have added the missing parent class 
>> declaration and import of parent class.
>> I have also addws a new yumDBUSBackend.py with a yumBackend class based 
>> on the daemonBackend.PackageKitBaseBackend.
> 
> Excellent, thanks a lot.  I really want to get this knocked out this
> over MLK weekend.  I'll see if I can get the dbus calls worked out
> tonight.
> 
>> Next step is to make some kind script to easy test the different backend 
>> methods, so we can test it direct without the frontend, the same way as 
>> we can run the different helper cmds in the old backend.
>>
>> something like this would be useful:
>>
>> dbustest <action> <param1> <param2> ...
>>
>> EX.
>>
>> dbustest search-name yum
>>
>> should do the same as
>>
>> ./search-name yum
> 
> Yeah, we certainly need this.  Are you thinking:
> 
> o Something that starts the daemon, does the dbus calls, and exits.
> 
>

This was what i was thinking off.
But i also have to receive the DBUS calls from the backend, so we can 
see that we get the right results from the backend.

Tim