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kpackagekit package

Add support for editing software properties via software-properties-kde

Bug #325846 reported by Roderick B. Greening on 2009-02-05

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kpackagekit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

At this point, there is no way to launch software-properties-kde (the repository and software properties editor) from within packagekit (like it was in Adept).

This update includes a patch which relies in kdesu and software-properties-kde and adds a button within the setings dialog to allow users to modify their software properties and repositories.

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-02-05:

#1

kpackagekit_0.3.1+20081211-0ubuntu2.dsc Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-02-05:

#2

kpackagekit_0.3.1+20081211-0ubuntu1_to_0ubuntu2.diff Edit (5.9 KiB, text/x-diff)

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-02-05:

#3

kpackagekit_0.3.1+20081211-0ubuntu2.diff.gz Edit (3.0 KiB, text/x-diff)

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote on 2009-02-05:

#4

Fix uploaded, but it looks like you forgot to mention this bug in the changelog. :P (My fault too since I didn't catch it)

Changed in kpackagekit:
status:	New → Fix Released

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James Westby (james-w) wrote on 2009-02-09:

#5

Hi,

was it considered to use packagekit's abstraction of software sources? That would have
avoided kdesu. I'm not sure how well that is supported in the apt backend though.

Thanks,

James

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-02-09:

#6

Yes.

Modifying kpackagekit at this point to add in 'all' the missing functionality of software-properties-kde was too much to take on. It was definitely more prudent at this point to provide a way for users to launch the existing sources editor, and leave package add/remove to kpackagekit.

The kdesu could be avoided, but would need to use policykit and if someone would like to take a stab at that, it would greatly be appreciated (I am not that familiar with policykit or what would need to happen here to make that work).

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