Re: Autopackage frontend

2007/9/13, Hylke Donker <[email protected]>:
> Ah ok. So the program package takes care of all the installation and
> uninstallation?

Yes. In fact, the "Manage 3rd party software" gui tool also calls
"package uninstall" in the background.

> But I still don't quite get how to use that protocol. Do I need to read from
> "bla.package" when I execute "package install bla.package"? And when I run
> "package install bla.package", how can I prevent it from poping up the GUI?
> Because I would like to use my own GUI.

You set AUTOPACKAGE_FRONTEND to your own frontend before launching
package install. The logic is here:
http://trac.autopackage.org/browser/main/trunk/share/apkg-io#L320

The frontend will get the path to the FIFO as first argument - you
should open it for reading. I'm not sure why we close it after each
read, perhaps to signal the backend we've finished reading or
something (mike?)

Code is: http://trac.autopackage.org/browser/frontend/trunk/gtkfe/frontend/receiver.c#L58
and
http://trac.autopackage.org/browser/frontend/trunk/gtkfe/frontend/protocol.c#L79

-Isak

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