PackageKit and gnome-packagekit test packages

Zack Cerza zcerza at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 16:24:05 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:49 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:15 -0400, Zack Cerza wrote:
> > I'm excited about the changelog feature. I'm getting the following
> > traceback, though, when gpk-u-v2 is chewing on metadata:
> 
> I've fixed this in git master -- can you try the packages here please:
> http://www.packagekit.org/packages/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Richard.

Ah, I just noticed your reply and installed newer packages:
gnome-packagekit-0.4.6-0.2.20090319git.fc11.i586

The changelog feature is indeed awesome. The formatting could use some
tweaking, though. Here's a sample, from libXv-1.0.4-2.fc11:
"""

List of changes:
2009-2-25 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> -
1.0.4-2
• Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora11Mass_Rebuild
"""

The blank line should be between "List of changes:" and the actual list.
Looks awkward the way it is now. Also, it'd be sweet if URIs could be
linkified.

Another thing I noticed is that when I start gpk-update-viewer2, the UI
blocks for around 30 seconds as it struggles to show all 967 available
updates. That's not too terribly surprising, considering I have
accessibility turned on. Then again, yumBackend.py seems to be chewing a
lot of CPU cycles:

  398 root      30  10 45604  33m 6340 R 87.8  2.2   1:06.30
yumBackend.py      

Maybe it's just my fault for putting off updating so many things. Either
way, I love the changelog feature!

Zack






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