[packagekit] Proposal for RPM To CD functionality in Packagekit

[Mario]

With nick pygi, sorry :P

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:34, Mario <mario.danic at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am in #packagekit, so when you catch me ... :)
>
> KR,
> M.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:33, G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mario
>>
>> Yeah sure i would just do some R & D with it and see would come up with
>> some initial thought on those and probably would we could catch up and there
>> too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Balaji
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Mario <mario.danic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We could probably exploit libburn/libisofs combination to pull off the
>>> burning process. Even if their documentation is pretty good, I'd be happy to
>>> advise on various implementation details which might not be that obvious or
>>> something :)
>>>
>>> KR,
>>> M.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:20, G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mario
>>>>
>>>> From birds eye view level i just thought when the update goes on if the
>>>> plugin is enabled it makes a copy of the RPMs which gets downloaded in an
>>>> other directory and then probably have a front end application which by
>>>> default picks up the RPMs from that directory and writes on to the CD.
>>>>
>>>> This is my initial thoughts on it though i am not sure this would work
>>>> and satisfy the requirement. i am looking into it on how it could be done
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Balaji
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Mario <mario.danic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How exactly did you plan to implement the writing code?
>>>>>
>>>>> KR,
>>>>> M.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:04, G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was just going through the docs in Packagekit and also the code and
>>>>>> i was just thinking on how about Packagekit having a plugin kind of stuff
>>>>>> where in it also does the job of  an offline repository creation which can
>>>>>> be written on to the DVD. I thought its a good feature to have too. This
>>>>>> helps in avoiding the same packages to be downloaded everytime and it could
>>>>>> be shared too. I could start working on this if you feel that what i speak
>>>>>> makes sense. I was talking to Richard on this few days back and i had told
>>>>>> him that i would come up with a design note ( a small write up ) on what it
>>>>>> would be like and how i propose to do it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know your suggestions and comments.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Balaji
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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