PackageKit's yumBackend checks for new Fedora releases by installing the preupgrade package and examining /usr/share/preupgrade/releases.list. Newer versions of preupgrade don't ship this file, and instead check http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt for the current list of Fedora releases. PackageKit should do the same.
Can we still ship releases.list in preupgrade during F10 please, as I've not tested what happens when PackageKit installs preupgrade, and then the file is not found. I certainly can't fix and test this before F10 GA.
Yeah, it'll ship in preupgrade-0.9.9 and later, at least until this is fixed. N.B. that it ships as /usr/share/preupgrade/releases.list, but preupgrade ignores that. It *will* read /usr/share/preupgrade/releases.txt if one is created.
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I just need to add the code to get the list, although this might involve proxies so it's not trivial to add. This is still on the TODO.
Looks like I'll need to keep shipping releases.list through F11? Moving to rawhide. Perhaps we can get yum to fetch this so it works through the same proxies etc. set up for for fetching other release/package metadata?
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I really don't think there is a lot of code to write here. Preupgrade simply does cp = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() if '://' in configfile: grabber = URLGrabber() grabber.opts.user_agent = __user_agent__ configdata = grabber.urlopen(configfile) else: configdata = open(configfile) where configFile gets set like this: if os.path.exists("releases.txt"): releasesfn = "releases.txt" elif os.path.exists("data/releases.txt"): releasesfn = "data/releases.txt" else: releasesfn = "http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt"
We're going to be doing this using zif in 0.6.3 which is released in a couple of weeks time.
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(In reply to comment #11) > We're going to be doing this using zif in 0.6.3 which is released in a couple > of weeks time. So it is fixed now for F13? (I see PackageKit-0.6.3-1.fc13)
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