Bug 29612

Summary:	Passing "never" to InstallCatalogs DBus method still lets one dialog show
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	David D Lowe <daviddlowe.flimm>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description David D Lowe 2010-08-17 07:13:08 UTC

Running this Python code displays a confirmation dialog ("Install packages in catalogue?"), despite passing "never" to the DBus method. I expected the method to not show any dialogs, except perhaps an authorisation dialog.

import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
proxy = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.PackageKit", "/org/freedesktop/PackageKit")
iface = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Modify")
iface.InstallCatalogs(dbus.UInt32(0), [catalog_file], "never")


I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with these packages, installed through Ubuntu's repositories:
packagekit: 0.5.7-0ubuntu2
packagekit-gnome: 2.29.2-0ubuntu1

I have created an appropriate .service file in /usr/share/dbus-1/services for org.freedesktop.PackageKit to avoid this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit-gnome/+bug/617866

For discussion on why I might need this method to work correctly, see this mailing list thread:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/packagekit/2010-August/005822.html

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2010-08-29 03:43:21 UTC

Why did you expect "never" to work? Usually you suppress dialogs with "hide-query", "hide-finished" etc. See http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-packagekit/plain/docs/DBusInterface.txt for the API.

Comment 2 David D Lowe 2010-08-29 07:39:49 UTC

See lines 156-158 of http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-packagekit/plain/src/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.xml

Convenience options such as:
<doc:tt>never</doc:tt>, <doc:tt>defaults</doc:tt> or <doc:tt>always</doc:tt>.
are also available.

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2010-08-29 07:58:02 UTC

My mistake, apologies. I'll look at this tonight.

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