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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Felix Geyer
  • Date: 2010-08-08 12:46:44 UTC
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  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20100808124644-1di0ycit6mbt24d8
Tags: 0.6.7-0ubuntu1
* New upstream release.
* Drop 20packagekit_error.diff, applied upstream.
* Make packagekit depend on packagekit-backend-aptcc without alternative
  dependencies as the default config requires it. (LP: #613412)
  - Move the apt and smart backends to Suggests.
* Add python and python-packagekit to the packagekit-backend-aptcc
  dependencies as get-distro-upgrade.py requires them. (LP: #614168)

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
 
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<title>PkDesktop</title>
 
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<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2">
 
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<link rel="home" href="index.html" title="PackageKit Reference Manual">
 
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<link rel="up" href="libpackagekit-gobject.html" title="libpackagekit GObjects">
 
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                  <a href="#PackageKit-pk-desktop.description" class="shortcut">Description</a>
 
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                  <a href="#PackageKit-pk-desktop.object-hierarchy" class="shortcut">Object Hierarchy</a>
 
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<div class="refentry" title="PkDesktop">
 
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<a name="PackageKit-pk-desktop"></a><div class="titlepage"></div>
 
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<h2><span class="refentrytitle"><a name="PackageKit-pk-desktop.top_of_page"></a>PkDesktop</span></h2>
 
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<p>PkDesktop — Find desktop metadata about a package</p>
 
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<a name="PackageKit-pk-desktop.synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2>
 
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<a name="PkDesktop"></a><pre class="synopsis">#define             <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PK-DESKTOP-DEFAULT-DATABASE:CAPS" title="PK_DESKTOP_DEFAULT_DATABASE">PK_DESKTOP_DEFAULT_DATABASE</a>
 
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#define             <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PK-DESKTOP-DEFAULT-APPLICATION-DIR:CAPS" title="PK_DESKTOP_DEFAULT_APPLICATION_DIR">PK_DESKTOP_DEFAULT_APPLICATION_DIR</a>
 
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                    <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktopPrivate" title="PkDesktopPrivate">PkDesktopPrivate</a>;
 
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                    <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop-struct" title="PkDesktop">PkDesktop</a>;
 
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<a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="returnvalue">PkDesktop</span></a> *         <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#pk-desktop-new" title="pk_desktop_new ()">pk_desktop_new</a>                      (<em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">void</span></code></em>);
 
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<span class="returnvalue">void</span>                <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#pk-desktop-test" title="pk_desktop_test ()">pk_desktop_test</a>                     (<em class="parameter"><code><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gpointer"><span class="type">gpointer</span></a> user_data</code></em>);
 
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<a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gboolean"><span class="returnvalue">gboolean</span></a>            <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#pk-desktop-open-database" title="pk_desktop_open_database ()">pk_desktop_open_database</a>            (<em class="parameter"><code><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> *desktop</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Error-Reporting.html#GError"><span class="type">GError</span></a> **error</code></em>);
 
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<a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Pointer-Arrays.html#GPtrArray"><span class="returnvalue">GPtrArray</span></a> *         <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#pk-desktop-get-files-for-package" title="pk_desktop_get_files_for_package ()">pk_desktop_get_files_for_package</a>    (<em class="parameter"><code><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> *desktop</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code>const <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar"><span class="type">gchar</span></a> *package</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Error-Reporting.html#GError"><span class="type">GError</span></a> **error</code></em>);
 
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<a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Pointer-Arrays.html#GPtrArray"><span class="returnvalue">GPtrArray</span></a> *         <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#pk-desktop-get-shown-for-package" title="pk_desktop_get_shown_for_package ()">pk_desktop_get_shown_for_package</a>    (<em class="parameter"><code><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> *desktop</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code>const <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar"><span class="type">gchar</span></a> *package</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Error-Reporting.html#GError"><span class="type">GError</span></a> **error</code></em>);
 
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<a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar"><span class="returnvalue">gchar</span></a> *             <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#pk-desktop-get-package-for-file" title="pk_desktop_get_package_for_file ()">pk_desktop_get_package_for_file</a>     (<em class="parameter"><code><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> *desktop</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code>const <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar"><span class="type">gchar</span></a> *filename</code></em>,
 
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  <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/gobject-The-Base-Object-Type.html#GObject">GObject</a>
 
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a local sqlite cache, and this module allows applications to query this.
 
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<pre class="programlisting">#define PK_DESKTOP_DEFAULT_DATABASE         LOCALSTATEDIR "/lib/PackageKit/desktop-files.db"
 
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<a name="PkDesktopPrivate"></a><h3>PkDesktopPrivate</h3>
 
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Private <a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> data
 
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<pre class="programlisting"><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="returnvalue">PkDesktop</span></a> *         pk_desktop_new                      (<em class="parameter"><code><span class="type">void</span></code></em>);</pre>
 
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<td><p><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Returns</em></span> :</span></p></td>
 
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<td> string array of results, free with <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Pointer-Arrays.html#g-ptr-array-unref"><code class="function">g_ptr_array_unref()</code></a>
 
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<pre class="programlisting"><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Pointer-Arrays.html#GPtrArray"><span class="returnvalue">GPtrArray</span></a> *         pk_desktop_get_shown_for_package    (<em class="parameter"><code><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> *desktop</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code>const <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar"><span class="type">gchar</span></a> *package</code></em>,
 
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                                                         <em class="parameter"><code><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Error-Reporting.html#GError"><span class="type">GError</span></a> **error</code></em>);</pre>
 
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<td> string array of results, free with <a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Pointer-Arrays.html#g-ptr-array-unref"><code class="function">g_ptr_array_unref()</code></a>
 
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<a name="pk-desktop-get-package-for-file"></a><h3>pk_desktop_get_package_for_file ()</h3>
 
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<pre class="programlisting"><a href="http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar"><span class="returnvalue">gchar</span></a> *             pk_desktop_get_package_for_file     (<em class="parameter"><code><a class="link" href="PackageKit-pk-desktop.html#PkDesktop"><span class="type">PkDesktop</span></a> *desktop</code></em>,
 
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