[packagekit] Questions and considerations

[Richard Hughes]

On 3 February 2011 16:42, Daniel Hernandez Bahr <dbahr at uci.cu> wrote:
> Is the intended behavior for gpk-application not to be set as
> insensitive while performing a transaction, even when there is nothing
> that can be done? Shouldn't it be better to let know the user more
> firmly that he/she needs to wait for the transaction to finish?

Yes, this would make sense.

> On other hand, how exactly works the service pack feature? How can a
> service pack be created or installed (mostly created, I haven't have the
> chance to try and install one)??

A service pack is really just a tarball of packages with a manifest
file. If you want to try it out, I would recommend using a Fedora
LiveCD and then create a service pack of a package or available
updates. You can open the service pack in file-roller and take a peek
inside :-)

> Last, but not least, when using a system proxy with the no_proxy setting
> set, packagekit can't download the packages if the repo is within the
> no_proxy rules.

Known bug, it's on the FIXME list. See
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33009 for details.

> With nothing else to comment just want to congratulate the PackageKit
> Team for the great job their doing.

Thanks! :-)

Richard.