Re: Uniform Proxy Settings

[Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Walters wrote:

2008/10/4 Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
  

Hmmm.
1.  yum-cli -> yum-api -> pk-con -> pk -> DBUS -> pk-backend -> yum-backend
-> yum-api -> install the package

compare to

2. yum-cli -> yum-api -> install the package
    

You could also use the python dbus bindings directly, or python
bindings for libpk.

  

here is kind og chicken and egg problem here.
    

There's no chicken-egg - the patch would look like this:

if 'DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS' in os.environ:
  if cmd == 'install':
   execv(['pkcon', 'install', sys.argv[1:]])
  elif cmd == 'search':
   execv(['pkcon', 'search', 'name', sys.argv[1:])
  # ..and maybe a total of 3-4 more commands.  Personally, I only use those two.

  

take this user case.

ssh to some server
yum install foo
how would that work.
    

With a change like the above, it would be unaffected, at least for now.

  

Dont forget that PackageKit is a highlevel abstraction to the low level
package management system, making the low level system use the highlevel
abstraction of it self, is kind of crazy. IMHO.
    

The (first) lower level system is yum-api, yum-cli and pkcon are
really at the same level. It would make sense long term to having them
be more merged.

  

Another problem is that yum install and pkcon dont have the same features.
yum install foo\* bar\* --enablerepo=rawhide --disableplugin=forbar --exclude=kernel\*

how do you what to do that in pkcon ?

It is like letting 'OpenOffice' call 'vi'.

pkcon is not a full blown package manager cli, it is a cli tool to do call the PK api, it need a lot of extra voodo magic to a full blown cli and i to think this is the idea of pkcon.

if you what to use 'pkcon install foo' then type it, and if you want to use 'yum install foo' then type that, like you would type 'vi' to use 'vi' and not 'openoffice'.

Tim

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