Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
Hi again, now aptcc backend install/remove/update things in noninteractive mode, and following Josselin Mouette advices I'm planning to write a DBus frontend to debconf that will emit a signal when it needs a Session frontend to be attached. I created a sequence diagram to ilustrate what i'm

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
I don't know if there is a better list to ask this question but as people here know dpkg well i'd like to know if there is some way of telling it to use another fd as stdin, I have done the following code to handle answering to conffile prompts but it works some times and other times it doesn't...

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-10-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Daniel Nicoletti a écrit : Hey Josselin, De: Josselin Mouette This solution is not implemented as I don't know debconf verry well but there is one problem that I'd like to know if there is a already a way to deal with this: when aptcc backend starts installing packages it's status are in

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-10-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: Ok now I'm forking and using --status-fd, but i got this localized pmstatus:k3b:0:Removendo k3b which i can't parse, actually i'm a bit afraid if it's status are some kind of standard, maybe i should look at the source.. :P So

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-10-01 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
Hey Josselin, De: Josselin Mouette This solution is not implemented as I don't know debconf verry well but there is one problem that I'd like to know if there is a already a way to deal with this: when aptcc backend starts installing packages it's status are in a fd

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-09-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:26:01 -0700, Daniel Nicoletti wrote: This solution is not implemented as I don't know debconf verry well but there is one problem that I'd like to know if there is a already a way to deal with this: when aptcc backend starts installing packages it's status are in a

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-09-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 à 10:26 -0700, Daniel Nicoletti a écrit : Installing/Removing/Updating are the last problem of this backend mostly because of debconf. PackageKit works this way (if you didn't take a look at the web site): Backend (apt | aptcc | yum | zyppy ) || || (some are

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-09-29 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
De: Josselin Mouette Currently, the question will simply be ignored, the frontend being set to noninteractive when there is no TTY nor display available. The hard work imo will be if i start in an interactive mode (in the backend) but when a question needs to popup the user loged out and i

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-09-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 à 11:37 -0700, Daniel Nicoletti a écrit : Currently, the question will simply be ignored, the frontend being set to noninteractive when there is no TTY nor display available. The hard work imo will be if i start in an interactive mode (in the backend) but when a

Re: Debconf and PackageKit

2009-09-29 Thread Daniel Nicoletti
De: Josselin Mouette Le mardi 29 septembre 2009 à 11:37 -0700, Daniel Nicoletti a écrit : Currently, the question will simply be ignored, the frontend being set to noninteractive when there is no TTY nor display available. The hard work imo will be if i start in an interactive mode (in