Description of problem: PackageKit/gnome-packagekit was made default for the Beta yesterday and pirut/pup was removed: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2008-March/msg03215.html Also the update tool is only started from inside gnome: /usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-pk-update-icon.desktop With this setup average KDE users wouldn't be able to install/reinstall or update packages because gnome-packagekit's applications weren't shown in the menu. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-packagekit-0.1.9-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: ever Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login into KDE 2. try to find contents of gnome-packagekit in kde's menu Actual results: Contents of gnome-packagekit are not shown in kde's menu Expected results: Contents of gnome-packagekit should be shown in kde's menu Additional info: I'm not aware of a qt or kde frontend for packagekit. So kde users should also be able to use gnome-packagekit - at least - atm. Otherwise we have to stick to pup/pirut or switch to smart instead. Showing pk-update-icon in KDE's systray would be broken atm because of known upstream bug (which I cannot find atm).
There is work on a qt or kde frontend (I forget which), but it may not be ready at this point. So we should definitely remove the OnlyShowIn's until the other interfaces are "ready"
The last activity on the mailing lists from the qt-frontend I know is quite old: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/packagekit/2007-October/000417.html However, it would definitively not be ready for the beta. Some further testings seems to also invoke a bug which could be workarounded if the line "NotShowIn=KDE;XFCE;" would also be removed from /usr/share/gnome/autostart/gnome-pk-update-icon.desktop when it's copied to /etc/xdg/autostart to be started for all desktops: bug #437058
I assume this bug has been addressed by the following commit ? * Tue Mar 11 2008 Robin Norwood <rnorwood> - 0.1.9-2 - Apply patch to enable gnome-packagekit in KDE Please reopen if there is another issue.
Could yo please move %{_datadir}/gnome/autostart/gnome-pk-update-icon.desktop to /etc/xdg/autostart so that it would also be autostarted in KDE? The upstream bug I've mentioned which crashs plasma is closed now: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159167
Fixed in gnome-packagekit-0.1.9-4 However, the icon doesn't "look right" when I log into KDE on my rawhide box. About 2/3 of it is visible, the rest is cut off. It at least works this way, but if there's a simple fix for this that I can get in today, let me know.
Robin, don't worry about the icon, fault lies not here, but elsewhere (it's more of a gtk2 applet vs plasma interaction)
I've sent a request to the rel-eng team that 0.1.9-4 get pushed into the beta
gpk-* applications are gone again from the KDE menu in Fedora 9: $ grep KDE /usr/share/applications/gpk-* /usr/share/applications/gpk-application.desktop:NotShowIn=KDE; /usr/share/applications/gpk-prefs.desktop:NotShowIn=KDE; /usr/share/applications/gpk-repo.desktop:NotShowIn=KDE; /usr/share/applications/gpk-update-viewer.desktop:NotShowIn=KDE;
Indeed (regression in the 0.2.x upgrade), and this is very bad because it means end users will get no more upgrades, they'll probably also miss the upgrade which will eventually fix this. The sooner this gets fixes, the better. Note that the /usr/share/applications entries aren't the worst, the /etc/xdg/autostart one is. In Rawhide, we'll want to have KPackageKit used by default eventually, but only once it works! And even if it was working yet, nothing would be dragging it in on F9.
Setting Severity to urgent because the net effect is that users will not get any updates at all, ever again (because they won't get the update which fixes this either).
The problem is that the enable-kde patch isn't applied. It's applied in the Rawhide package, so I assume it does apply, thus can you please apply it to the F9 package and issue an update directly to stable as soon as possible?
I'll get this now.
gnome-packagekit-0.2.3-9.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
If someone who uses KDE could test the above update, that would be great.
I'm on it, firing up the laptop running F9 now.
Works fine here. Can you please push this directly to stable? The faster this gets pushed, the shorter the breakage window and thus the fewer the users ending up with no more updates.
gnome-packagekit-0.2.3-9.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Now that kpackagekit exists in rawhide, should I remove this patch for F10?
Yes please.
What about people upgrading from F9? Nothing is dragging in kpackagekit for those.