Initial implementation of the DNF5 backend by Conan-Kudo · Pull Request #931 · PackageKit/PackageKit This pull request is the culmination of a few weeks of tons of trial and error to get an initial backend going for DNF version 5. It is as much of a straight port from the existing DNF backend as p...

To celebrate the end of the year, I've completed one of the biggest ticket items I had: I've made a brand new #PackageKit backend for Linux distributions using #DNF version 5.

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If you like this kind of work, please consider sponsoring me!

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🤔 Do you use #KDEPlasma6?
🤔 Are you on #Ubuntu 25.10?
😠 Tired of #PackageKit asking you to authenticate every hour or so while #Discover is running?

I know that AI is a bad-word around here, but I asked #ChatGPT and its first suggestion worked on the first try […]

[Original post on bofh.social]

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Something changed with #Kubuntu 25.10 over the past week. Now all of a sudden I'm getting #prompted for my #sudo #password every time #PackageKit runs to update package sources (which is several times a day)!

Fortunately, you can create a custom #PolKit #rule to let it run without prompting […]

I am very honored to be part of the first Sovereign Tech Fellowship program!
This will directly support my work on #FreeDesktop, #AppStream and #PackageKit, so expect a lot more changes faster, and also way faster patch reviews. Also check out the amazing program and the other fellows!