Software Management/CIM

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Introdution

cmpi-pywbem-software is a set of CIM-Providers for PackageKit. It includes a provider for:

• Updates

 OMC_PackageKit_Update
 This provider lists and installs available and needed updates for the system.

• Repositories

 OMC_PackageKit_Repository
 This provider lists all declared repositories.
  It provides also methods to enable/disable and refresh the repositories.

• Packages

 OMC_PackageKit_Package
 This provider lists, installs or removes all available packages.

How to use it

When installing the provider via the rpm-packages they are already registered otherwise you have to call

   cmpi-provider-register -d <directory with the providers>

Afterwards you will find the provider within the root/suse namespace.

Constraints

• When invoking the refresh method of the repository-provider all repos will be refresed, not only the selected one (constraint of PackageKit-API).
• A package/update with a license can not be installed as also a repo with an unknown key can not be refreshed since the signal-handling in the providers isn't implemented, yet.

Hints

Be aware that the user which runs the CIM-server has to have all needed PackageKit-policies (PolicyKit) otherwise you'll get an authorization exception.

How to get it

Packages

It will be included in SLE11. Otherwise you will find the latest packages in the OBS home-project of haass.

Developers

For anonymous checkout:

   git clone git://git.opensuse.org/projects/cmpi-pywbem-software.git

If you have write access to our repository:

   git clone git@git.opensuse.org:projects/cmpi-pywbem-software.git