Om20088.8: packagekitd vs. opkg ?

[Tick Chen]

Hi Harald, 
  Libopkg will only allow one process works for metadata synchronize issues. 
Packagekitd will be launched automatically by installer, and terminated
after 5 mins without any requests. (Generally speaking 5 mins after
terminate Installer)
If you want to use opkg and packagekitd is still running. 
You can just killall packagekitd if you are sure it is not
installing/upgrading/removing/refreshing. 

There is an easy command-line tools using packagekit: pkcon. 
You can use that talk with packagekitd through DBus.
Of course,you can also use dbus-send. :)

Cheers, 
Tick
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:59:09PM +0200, Harald Koenig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> using the new Om 2008.8 image, /usr/sbin/packagekitd is running and blocks
> the use of opkg on command line:
> 
> 	root at om-gta02:~# opkg install vte
> 	Collected errors:
> 	 * Could not obtain administrative lock
> 
> 	root at om-gta02:~# fuser /usr/lib/opkg/lock
> 	2805 
> 
> 	root at om-gta02:~# ps up 2805
> 	USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> 	root      2805  5.4 12.7  35248 15752 ?        S    16:53   0:04 /usr/sbin/packagekitd
> 
> 
> is there a opkg-like command line tool which talks/works with packagekitd ?
> 
> or how should this be handled from a remote login or local terminal
> (other than "pkill packagekitd" or similar) ?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Harald
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