[packagekit] PackageKit & Debian, Was: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Richard,

Richard Hughes [2008-11-26 13:23 +0000]:
> I'm not sure what questions you would ever need to ask for jockey. Have
> you got any examples?

Indeed I try hard to not ask any in jockey, I just got a bug report
about the fglrx driver, which failed to install because of a conffile
question (which obviously can't be answered, since the jockey backend
runs noninteractively -- pretty much the same problem as in PK
itself). Those kinds of things can and should be fixed in the driver
packages, though.

The only real question I ever needed to ask was for installing the
firmware for the b43 kernel module; while the kmod itself is free and
shipped upstream, the firmware isn't freely redistributable, and thus
you have to provide a source for b43-fwcutter (MacOS or driver CD, or
a download URL). Of course I can ask a custom-coded question before
installing the driver, but I'd much rather use the already existing
packaging scripts from the b43-fwcutter package (which use debconf).

So far this isn't blocking me enough to not use PK in Jockey (just
that silly dbus-glib bug [1] is driving me mad and prevents me from
using PK with its full capabilities).

Thanks,

Martin

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16668

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