Yum, PackageKit, and PulseAudio

[robert-e]

I have a couple of questions:

- I have removed PackageKit (and installed YumEx). Now either in Yum, or in YumEx, I get an error message:

YUM: No plugin match for: refresh-packagekit

While this causes no issues, I wonder why, and perhaps someone could give me a hint how to remedy this (besides reinstalling PackageKit..I don't want to get into my reasons for removing it here).

- In the interest of trying work within the Fedora system of doing things, I have installed as many Pulse Audio utilities as I can find. However, one utility (paprefs) has PackageKit et al as dependencies. Why is this? I don't intend to re-install PackageKit, but I am wondering. On a connected note, of what use is the paprefs to me in trying to control Pulse Audio.

My intent is to try to get the amateur radio programs to work under PA. If I fail at this, I will then have to tackle the ever-increasingly difficult task of removing Pulse Audio.

One final note: In my brief excursion into the Mint 8 world, I noticed references to a PulseAudio Suspender, but have not seen something similar in Fedora. Perhaps it is called something else?

Thank you for your insights,
Regards,
Bob

[glennzo]

Bob, could you just edit /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/refresh-packagekit.conf and set it to enabled=0 ?

Ummm, at least a possible answer for one question.

[glenn@borkedbox pluginconf.d]$ yum whatprovides */pasuspender
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit

pulseaudio-utils-0.9.15-11.fc11.i586 : PulseAudio sound server utilities
Repo        : installdvd
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/pasuspender

pulseaudio-utils-0.9.15-11.fc11.i586 : PulseAudio sound server utilities
Repo        : repof11
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/pasuspender

pulseaudio-utils-0.9.15-17.fc11.i586 : PulseAudio sound server utilities
Repo        : updates
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/pasuspender

pulseaudio-utils-0.9.15-17.fc11.i586 : PulseAudio sound server utilities
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/bin/pasuspender

[glenn@borkedbox pluginconf.d]$ yum info paprefs
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name       : paprefs
Arch       : i586
Version    : 0.9.8
Release    : 1.fc11
Size       : 62 k
Repo       : repof11
Summary    : Management tool for PulseAudio
URL        : http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/paprefs
License    : GPLv2+
Description: PulseAudio Preferences (paprefs) is a simple GTK based configuration dialog
           : for the PulseAudio sound server.

[robert-e]

Thanks Glenn
I checked for that config file, and it was not there. The four that are in that subd. are:

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/blacklist.conf
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/keys.conf
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/presto.conf
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/whiteout.conf

Knowing very little about the where-with-all of PackageKit, I did not edit any of them. BTW, I should have mentions that this is on F12. Any further ideas about this? It is not a big deal, but it is the way I learn.

I had a look at your second listing, and it is not really obvious why Package Kit is a dependancy? If I were paranoid, I would say it is because Hughie and Lennart are such good chums. LOL

Regards,
Bob

[glennzo]

Maybe refresh-packagekit.conf was removed when you got rid of packagekit.

The listings that I provided were really just to show you that often times you can answer your own questions with tools like yum, i.e. yum whatprovides */ or yum info ...

Just out of curiosity, does ls -la /etc/yum/pluginconf.d show a hidden file, maybe refresh-packagekit.conf~

[marcrblevins]

Try:

rpm -qa | grep PackageKit-yum-plugin

[robert-e]

Thanks glenn and marc,
I ran both of your's suggested command, and there was no hidden files. The rpm command showed no output. I suspect that YUM has some hook built into it, calling on PackageKit to update the database; or else something more has been added into the kernel. There seems to be a lot of stuff being moved into the kernel, so this would not surprise me. Mind you, this is pure conjecture on my part, and not to be take too seriously.

This is not really all that important and don't waste a lot of your time on it. I am just trying to learn.

Right now, I am going to take a break and have a cup of coffee, and a piece of pecan pie. Not good for me, but I will risk it...lol

Regards,
Bob