Re: Autopackage frontend

Thanks alot, that's all I needed to know.
Hylke

On 9/13/07, Isak Savo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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