[Bug 1221760] Re: Having "pkgdir" in the manifest info would be useful

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package click - 0.4.4

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click (0.4.4) saucy; urgency=low

  * Amend "click help install" to recommend using "pkcon install-local".
  * Run hooks when removing a per-user package registration.
  * Adjust usage lines for "click help verify" and "click help pkgdir" to
    indicate that options are allowed.
  * Add a click(1) manual page.
  * Use json.dump and json.load in most places rather than json.dumps and
    json.loads (which unnecessarily construct strings).
  * Add "click unregister", which unregisters a package for a user and
    removes it from disk if it is not being used.
  * Add RemovePackage support to the PackageKit plugin, mapped to "click
    unregister".
  * Attempt to remove the old version of a package after installing or
    registering a new one.
  * Remove code supporting PackageKit 0.7 API, and instead arrange to
    disable the PackageKit plugin if the new API is not available, since we
    don't need to build it on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
  * Report errors from click subprocesses in PackageKit plugin
    (LP: #1218483).
  * Implement PackageKit search by name and by details.
  * Reserve manifest keys starting with an underscore for use as dynamic
    properties of installed packages.
  * Add the dynamic key "_directory" to "click list --manifest" output,
    showing the directory where each package is unpacked (LP: #1221760).
  * Add the dynamic key "_removable" to "click list --manifest" output,
    which is 1 if a package is unpacked in a location from which it can be
    removed, otherwise 0.
 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>   Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:37:39 +0100

** Changed in: click (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Having "pkgdir" in the manifest info would be useful

Status in “click” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The touch system-settings need to list the installed clicks with their
  icons [1]

  To do that we call "click list --manifest". The manifest gives us an
  icon path relative to the package directory though, which means that
  we need to call "click pkgdir <name>" for each entry.

  That works fine, but the command takes some ~0.1s (on a i5 laptop with
  ssd drive), which leads to quite some latency in the UI if you have a
  non trivial number of packages installed.

  We can make the system-settings code async, and display icons
  progressively, but that would mean more complex code, and UI
  flackering (icons would be first a placeholder and replaced by the
  real ones as the info come). It would be handy if the manifest was
  including the pkgdir since it would remove most of the overhead we
  have...

  [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AboutThisDevice#phone-storage

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