Re: crazy ideas for yum/pup/that_damned_applet

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 18:12 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:

>seth vidal ([email protected]) said: 
>> So Paul ping'd me today and had an idea: what if yum had dbus knowledge
>> so that when it found out about an update it could signal the applet to
>> start throbbing and being annoying.
>
>This sounds disturbingly familiar.


to what? I didn't know something else was doing this.





>> useful to up2date on RHEL. So what if yum/pup/etc had a daemon that
>> could, optionally, update the metadata information from the repositories
>> and announce a dbus event to the system?
>
>Basically, you'd have the python daemon that sits there and occasionally
>looks for updates. (You could also kick it over dbus to check now.)
>
>Users can either poke it to say if there's updates available, or the PackageManager
>could check for apps on dbus that have requested notifications of updates.
>
>Once an app such as the cracklet or yum, or whatever, has been notified
>of the update, it can call over dbus to the PM to get information on
>the update, the changelog, etc. Then it can display its pretty little
>dialog, and poke the PM over dbus to invoke yum/pup/whatever to do the
>update.


Well a good place to start with code is something than the c-daemon can
execute to update the cache and look for updates. anyone know much about
sending dbus events from a python app?

-sv

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