[packagekit] One click web based installation UI

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Sonntag, den 19.04.2009, 18:53 +0530 schrieb Abhradip Mukherjee:
> I presented this idea on GSOC 2009 project from Fedora on similar
> topic. Then Toshio Kuratomi replied "Whether or not this accepted for
> GSOC, there are some good ideas here.  I think communicating with the
> PackageKit developers [1]_  about how your ideas can tie into their
> ideas for installing from the web is a good place to start if you want
> to support arbitrary installing packages from arbitrary locations.
> Talking to me and other fedora Infrastructure people on the
> fedora-infrastructure list[2]_ or #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net
> would be a good starting point if you only want to let people install
> packages from official Fedora Repositories." So here it goes with the
> parts of the conversation between me and Mr. Toshio Kuratomi. 
> ======================================

Hello,

at first I have to say that providing downloadable scripts is an
absolute no-go. To be honest this is a total security disaster. It is
very easy to implement using scripts, but please don't repeat mistakes
from the past (e.g. automatix).

There has been a lot of discussion about this topic in Ubuntu:

https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/third-party-apt

Currently we use apturl to tigger the installation of packages:

https://edge.launchpad.net/apturl/

Furthermore PackageKit already provides a mozilla plugin, which allows
to initiate the installation of software from a website. Please take a
look at contrib/browser-plugin in the source code of PackageKit.

There was an earlier approach done by Robin Norwood, which seems to be
stalled. The source code is here:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/amber.git

Cheers,

Sebastian
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