PackageKit and gnome-packagekit test packages

[Zack Cerza]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 16:30 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 12:24 -0400, Zack Cerza wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Could you file a rh bug please, trivial fix.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492602

> > Also, it'd be sweet if URIs could be linkified.
> 
> Trickier, but not impossible. File a bug and I'll make it so. Note, that
> the URLs that people put into Bohdi are "linkified", we'll just have to
> do a bit of tweaking for the ChangeLog text. Might take a bit of time.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492603

> > 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.
> 
> Yikes.
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Well, we probably need to optimise the python; I'm no python legend and
> it's not been optimised at all yet. Offers of help gleefully received,
> but thanks indeed for the feedback!
> 
> Richard.

Ah, I see. I'm not sure if I could help there, but if I get a few free
minutes I'll take a look.

Zack