[packagekit] Add on media and offline package installation

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/04/2009 06:25 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> 1) Run gpk-service-pack (This should really be installed by default)
> 
> It doesn't get the testing to be installed by default, IMHO.

I can help with that. I did file one and get it fixed already.

>> 2) Give a list of packages. Service pack with the entire list of
>> packages+ dependencies would be created
> 
> You can put multiple packages in the textbox, e.g. "hal,hal-info,kernel,glibc"

I tried with spaces instead and got No package "foo bar" found. foo, bar
doesn't work either. Maybe you can support these variants or add a hint
next to the text box that multiple packages with comma and no spaces
between them is supported. Also it says "create an archive of a specific
package" which suggests that multiple packages are not supported.


> By inserting the disk means we have to register a content type and
> prober for the media type. This is fairly easy, but then turns a
> generic pendrive into PackageKit media from a nautilus point of view.
> Better instead would be to insert the disk and just double click on
> the .servicepack file.

Users would have to know to do that. I am not sure the audience you are
targeting would be aware of this.

Rahul