[packagekit] PackageKit 0.3.2 in rawhide

[Michel Salim]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:48 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> Please can you try out this new release and report any bugs you find
>> either in bugzilla or by emailing the packagekit mailing list. The big
>> new feature of this release is a new dispatcher, which should improve
>> the interactivity of GUI applications as the yum instance is reused
>> rather than re-loaded each time. There's also the usual set of bugfixes
>> too.
>
> Also, there's a nice little test that I would like people to try:
>
> do "pkcon refresh" to make sure you're up to date
>
> Edit /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf and enable the
> RefreshCacheScanDesktopFiles and RefreshCacheUpdatePackageList keys.
>
> then do "pkcon refresh" and tell me roughly how long it takes before the
> gpk-update-icon process (the box icon in the top right) stops reporting
> searches.
>
> Enabling the two commands creates the package list which is used for
> auto-completion in gpk-application, and it also enables the icons and
> translations used in the various client tools.
>
> If it doesn't take ages (it's pretty CPU demanding) then I'll enable it
> by default for F10.
>
On an Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz,

real	0m23.878s
user	0m0.017s
sys	0m0.008s

So it's not too bad. It was using almost 100% on one core for most of the time.


-- 
Michel Salim
http://hircus.jaiku.com/