Hello, I am glad to announce aptdaemon: It is a DBus controlled and PolicyKit using package management daemon build on python-apt. If the above description reminds you of PackageKit you won't be completely wrong. Aptdaemon reuses some design concepts and code from PackageKit. As the author of the PackageKit apt backend I run into some policy problems: PackageKit only allows non-interactive actions. So there is no support for debconf, CDROMs and configuration conflict handling. Nevertheless thanks to Richard Hughes for his efforts on making package management less of a pain. Aptdaemon already provides the following features: * DBus interface with DBus activation and idle time out * PolicyKit authorization allowing e.g. desktop user to update the cache (check for updates) passwordlessly * Transaction based: Atom actions, e.g. installing packages, are queued for processing. * Controlling terminal to apt and dpkg calls. Furthermore a non-interactive fallback mode * Install packages from repositories or local file system, remove packages, update the cache and (safe) upgrade your system * Canceling of downloads and not yet processed transactions * Localisation * Python client library and GTK widgets * An example GTK (aptd-gtk-demo) and command line application (aptdcon) Here you can find a screencast showing most of the above issues: http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/trunk/0.10/+download/announcement.ogg The project is hosted at Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon To get the latest code type: bzr branch lp:aptdaemon Ubuntu Jaunty packages can be found in the PPA: http://launchpad.net/~aptdaemon-developers/+archive/ppa A package for Debian can be found here, but you need python-apt from experimental: http://launchpad.net/aptdaemon/trunk/0.10/+download/aptdaemon_0.10_all.deb There are still a lot of things to do and work on. Especially integrating a not yet written DBus empowered debconf frontend. Feel free to submit comments, bugs and code! Cheers, Sebastian
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