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Re: [Cooker] New printing system

by Frederic Crozat :: Rate this Message:

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Le dimanche 10 août 2008 à 14:02 -0300, Tiago Salem Herrmann a écrit :

> Olivier Blin escreveu:
> > Tiago Salem Herrmann <salem@...> writes:
> >
> >  
> >>> Btw, new test: damn, just forgot.
> >>> (4mins after) Oh, remembered: I couldn't check how
> >>> system-config-printer is integrated with urpmi, but I assume it is
> >>> via subprocessing/fork. That would be less problematic, but it would
> >>> be nice to test installing required packages from the 3 CDs set,
> >>> which I'm almost sure it will request a media change. Just to be
> >>> sure that this working properly :)
> >>>      
> >> Yes, it calls gurpmi, and I believe it will mange these package
> >> stuffs. but I'll test it for sure.
> >>    
> >
> > Couldn't it use packagekit instead?
> > It would avoid maintaining a gurpmi backend
> >
> >  
> Yes, is packagekit planned to be moved to main?
> I'll need to study how it works, but I think it is possible.

I'm not opposed to the idea but we are still missing some notification
callbacks in urpmi backend of PackageKit (Aurelien is supposed to take
care of that this month). Moreover, we would need to ensure it doesn't
interact incorrectly with our Mandriva tools and doesn't try to
duplicate Mandriva tools (mdkapplet) by default.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@...>
Mandriva

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