Ticket #3837 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 6 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

Package manager

Reported by: heerd Assigned to: hardert
Priority: major Milestone: RADIX.2
Component: General Software Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Port package manager and verify it works via zigbee. Autoupdate and selectable updates.

Change History

06/10/09 11:32:00 changed by simpsoco

1) Create package repository. 2) Add repo to OE package list. 3) PackageKit?-opkg integration. 4) NetworkManager?.

06/19/09 10:18:53 changed by goskab

  • milestone changed from RADIX.1.2 to RADIX.2.

Moved to realistic milestone.

06/19/09 10:21:55 changed by goskab

we might want a better way then zigbee. Zigbee is slower than slow, realistic speed over IP is looking to be ~25% (IP has a lot of overhead and we can't send large packets due to 802.15.4) of 256kBps, or ~64kBps, so close to a 56k modem :/

Is is possible to have packages downloaded to a USB stick and update from that?

06/26/09 18:55:07 changed by hardert

  • owner changed from simpsoco to hardert.

09/17/09 00:34:18 changed by hardert

I've packaged the latest packagekit release (0.5.2), but I don't think there are any lightweight GUIs to packagekit available. There is gnome-packagekit, but it has pretty hefty GNOME deps so I don't think it's a good option. It would be great if someone wants to code a lightweight frontend using pygtk and the python API for packagekit.

There is the console pkcon client that comes with packagekit. I'll probably test that for now and maybe deploy it alongside opkg for Radix 2.

10/08/09 00:23:54 changed by hardert

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

I've decided that Radix 2 will stick with just opkg for a package manager. Packagekit really doesn't feel worth deploying until someone comes up with a lighter interface to it.