From b19f4ba61beed87390d98dce0ccacd3f8fe5841e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hughes
Your distribution may already have compiled packages that are much
easier to install.
Where do I download it?
+Precompiled Packages
-
sudo conary update-all
sudo conary update PackageKit gnome-packagekit
yum install PackageKit gnome-packagekit
(as root)
+Released versions are found on +people.freedesktop.org. +
+Version | Date | |
0.1.0 | 2007-10-16 |
+The actual PackageKit daemon needs: +
+glib
2.14.0dbus
newer than 1.1.3 (20070819 or later)dbus-glib
0.74libnm
0.6.4polkit-dbus
0.5polkit-grant
0.5+gnome-packagekit will need all the usual GNOME libs as well. +Just make sure you install PackageKit before gnome-packagekit! +
+ ++You can get the latest code from the public git repo on freedesktop. +
++git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/packagekit +git clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/gnome-packagekit ++
+If you want to commit changes or a new backend, then please email the +mailing list and we can give you access to a developer server. +The developer server is always up to date, and the anonymous git is synced +about twice a day. +Having a two tier server lets developers review code for correctness and +security problems before it's used in the real world. +
+ +
PackageKit itself is an abstract daemon, the only bits that are distro
specific are the backends.
To make PackageKit work on a new distribution, you have to write a
"backend" which is basically a shim layer from the distro tool to
packagekitd. A backend can have one or more threads and also spawn other processes.
-See the developer information here for loads more
+See the developer information here for loads more
information.
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