Hello! I've added a patch to PackageKit which will set the environment var, so PackageKit is ready to use this feature. PackageKit *can* do background package upgrades, but this is disabled for Debian at time (we use apt itself) Changing the env var for background tasks would work, of course. Is there a chance to have this merged & uploaded before freeze, as it is quite important for PK? Thank you for working on this! Cheers, Matthias
2012/6/20 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>: > Thanks for the feedback. > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 17:22:41 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >> Julien Cristau wrote: >> > when using packagekit, which seems to be the way gnome is going for >> > graphical package management nowadays, the apt-listchanges output >> > doesn't go anywhere, and the gpk window just seems to hang. >> > In order to fix that, it'd be nice if apt-listchanges could send its >> > output using the debconf protocol so it could show up in the packagekit >> > frontend. The below patch is a proof of concept to that effect. pk >> > would have to set APT_LISTCHANGES_FRONTEND=debconf for this to work (it >> > already sets APT_LISTBUGS_FRONTEND=none). packagekit and debconf >> > maintainers cc:ed in case they have comments. >> > >> > I'm not too happy about the tempfile thing instead of just using >> > db.subst to change the contents of the note, but I couldn't figure out >> > how to SUBST something with newlines (it didn't seem to work when I >> > tested with the dialog frontend, anyway). >> >> Does this have the potential to have security updates being applied in >> the background be blocked on the user pressing Ok on a news window? >> > I don't know if packagekit does package upgrades in the background. > If it does it should probably do it with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, > which I think this would respect. > >> It might be better to just email the changes. >> > Right, the problem with that is you don't know if a mta is > installed/configured, and even then if anybody will read local mail to > root. > > Cheers, > Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
