[packagekit] Proposal for RPM To CD functionality in Packagekit

[Mario]

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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