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Hi, |
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Here I come again with another gsoc update. Nearly weekly (10 days) but |
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still better than nothing ;) |
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Last time, I was talking about an ebuild for packagekit soon. Actually, |
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packagekit is not useful without a pretty frontend. I am using |
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gnome-packagekit but packagekit and gnome-packagekit moved to |
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policykit-0.92 and gnome-policykit-0.92 which are new. Policykit-0.92 is |
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masked in the tree (thanks mrpouet) but gnome-policykit is nowhere at |
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the moment. So as I'm not able to add gnome-policykit. Ebuilds are going |
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to wait. |
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A probable fix will be to add packagekit masked in the tree and |
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gnome-packagekit with gnome-policykit in gnome-overlay. We will see. |
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So, where is portage support in packagekit ? |
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We know have a support for all functionalities. Even repository |
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management with layman api. By the way, with zmedico, we were talking |
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about a possible merge of layman in portage (ie. have a repository |
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management system directly in portage). It could be done maybe at the |
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end of the gsoc or even after. |
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Now, I'm working on having a clean and best as possible portage |
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management with packagekit. For example, packagekit is having a filter |
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system which help user to filter showed content (mostly when searching |
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something). Some filters proposed by packagekit can't be added now |
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because portage/ebuilds don't support them but they could be good adds |
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for Gentoo ebuilds. I will speak about them in a further email. They are |
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not needed for my gsoc because that's clearly not key features but for |
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further developments, that would be great to have them. |
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So, next developments are going to improve integration for search-* and |
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get-* functions. Basically, every non-critical functions. That will be |
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done by discussing portage needs and adding messages / errors specific |
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to portage if needed. |
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After that, install-* and update-* functions will have to be improved. |
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That will surely be a bigger work. |
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Thanks for reading. |
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Mounir |