Bug 504136

Summary:	Add support for PackageKit service packs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	kdeutils	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	balajig81, fedora, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rhughes, smohan, smparrish, than
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-06-04 12:24:06 UTC

Description of problem:

PackageKit has the ability to create what is called service packs used for offline software installation. These are basically tar balls 

# file netbeans-fedora-11-i686.servicepack 
netbeans-fedora-11-i686.servicepack: POSIX tar archive

Ark should recognize and be able to extract files with this extension.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2009-06-04 13:20:19 UTC

Feature requests probably best sent upstream, but we'll do what we can.

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2009-06-04 13:26:35 UTC

I think the RFE here was just for Ark to treat .servicepack as a tarball. I agree KPackageKit needs support for them too.

Comment 3 Rahul Sundaram 2009-06-04 13:34:54 UTC

Yes. Kevin Kofler is correct. This was wrongly reassigned to KPackageKit.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2009-06-04 13:35:25 UTC

sorry, my bad for not reading the original report careful enough.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2009-06-04 13:56:56 UTC

Looks like ark "just works" if the
application/x-servicepack
is added to ark.desktop's
MimeType=...

Now, to decide if we want this to be preferred over packagekit's or not (testing kpk support here)

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2009-06-04 14:01:40 UTC

kpk doesn't seem to support it, but that may be related to bug #499690

Comment 7 Richard Hughes 2009-06-04 14:36:37 UTC

It should be a trivial patch to KPackageKit to enable this functionality.

Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2009-06-04 15:25:11 UTC

OK, support added to kdeutils-4.2.4-2 and kdeutils-4.2.90-1

Comment 9 Steven M. Parrish 2009-06-28 20:11:21 UTC

Rex, I know we have a fix for this based on the mimetype but do you want me to send this up to KPK and get it integrated there?

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Comment 10 Rex Dieter 2009-06-28 20:40:01 UTC

The only fix I'm aware of is for kdeutils/ark (for which I just sent upstream).

So, whatever can be done to help on the kpackagekit end of things, I'm all for it.