[packagekit] KPackagekit in Kubuntu

[Richard Hughes]

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 12:00 +0200, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> Jonathan Riddell a écrit :
> > Hi, I've packaged libpackagekit-qt and kpackagekit for Kubuntu Intrepid.
> >
> > https://edge.launchpad.net/~jr/+archive
> >
> > It's working really well, thanks for working on it Adrien and Daniel.
> >   
> Great ! Thanks a lot for that.
> > Before I upload it to the main Ubuntu archive there is an inconsistency in the 
> > licencing that needs fixed, the COPYING file is GPL 3 but the code is GPL 2.  I 
> > think it would be best to change it to GPL 2 since that would allow it to be 
> > put into KDE's SVN which would help speed up distro adoption.
> >   
> OK, I'll see with Daniel, I don't see any objection to putting my code 
> under GPL2

Sure, you probably want to specify GPLv2+ as this gives you the most
flexibility for later. Libraries want to be LGPLv2+ -- but that's only
my opinion -- you are free to choose as you wish :-)

> > The upgrade module doesn't do anything and the settings module only lets me 
> > set the download interval, I wonder if that is due to limitations in the apt 
> > backend.
> >
> > It needs policykit of course, have you looked into using the policykit-kde 
> > code in http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/PolicyKit-kde/ ?  I 
> > couldn't get it working.
> >   
> Actually, I only call policykit itself, and policykit chooses to use the 
> gnome, kde or console frontend. If PolicyKit-Kde is installed, I guess 
> it'll use it.

Sure, since 0.2.something we just choose the session helper, which will
be kde if you have the right thing installed.

> > an application for installing a single 
> > package (used by a script from Amarok to install MP3 support for example)

You want to implement the
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#session-methods API in kpackagekit
-- then we can all speak the same language :-)

Richard.