A PackageKit browser plugin

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 19:22:52 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 21:14 +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > We've been working on a website for browsing (rating, commenting,
> > etc) available applications for Fedora. As part of that we wanted
> > to be able to install/run software from the website.
> >
> > I spent the last day hacking up a quick browser plugin:
> 
> Sounds like a great idea. I got the source and tried to compile it but I 
> get this error:
> 
> src/contents.cpp: In member function 'void PkpContents::recheck()':
> src/contents.cpp:119: error: cannot convert 'const char*' to 'PkFilterEnum' 
> for argument '2' to 'gboolean pk_client_resolve(PkClient*, PkFilterEnum, 
> const gchar*, GError**)'
> make[2]: *** [packagekit_plugin_la-contents.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dennis/Downloads/source/packagekit-plugin'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dennis/Downloads/source/packagekit-plugin'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Does the plugin require a specific version of PackageKit?

I developed it against PackageKit-0.1.x, let me upgrade to 0.2.x from
updates-testing and see if I can reproduce and fix the above. Richard
keeps on telling me that 0.2.x is amazingly better anyways.

- Owen





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