New PackageKit and gnome-packagekit in F9 soon

[David Nielsen]

2008/7/7 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:

> I've built new builds of PackageKit and gnome-packagekit and moved
> them into updates-testing. The new major version is hopefully much
> better from a UI perspective and hopefully much more stable but is an
> API break from 0.1.x.
>
> The builds for F9 are here:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=54830
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=54886
>
> Please test these packages, and report any bugs on email (reply to this
> thread please), rather than the admin update page. When we've got quite
> a bit of testing and ironed out and regressions then I'll push to
> stable.
>
> >From a speed point of view it shouldn't be a lot quicker just yet. I've
> spent most of last week profiling yum and working around different slow
> paths in the API. All this work I've been doing in git master, but I'll
> backport that to 0.2.x in good time as it's essentially the same as in
> the 0.2.x branch.
>
> For instance, the group list used to take 14 seconds on my machine, and
> now completes in less than a tenth of a second using master. If you want
> to test this new code, jump onto the packagekit mailing list and I'll
> give you instructions on how to build master.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard.


I've been running these for a while now and I see no stability or
performance problems. So far they have survived installing/removing software
and performing several system updates without issue. Excellent work Richard.
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