[packagekit] Network Status and Repository accessibility

[Tick Chen]

Hi Richard, 
  Great! I think it will help if we can get a pk_backend_ping_host(). 

Cheers, 
Tick

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:05:09AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:37 +0800, Tick Chen wrote:
> > Here I have some questions:
> > 1. Is Network Status enough for packagekit?
> > 2. Is repository accessibility the real thing the package manager cares
> > about?
> > 3. Is this shall be done in packagekit? Or it shall be done in backends?
> > 
> > In my option, I think that is what backends care about. 
> 
> Yes, the NM and unix check are just sanity checks so we don't try to
> even schedule an action until the network is up. I certainly don't think
> the daemon should be pinging anything, but this is fine in the backend
> -- we can even make a bool=pk_backend_ping_host() helper if you wish.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
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