Re: [gentoo-soc] PMS Test Suite, weekly report #10 (midterm sumup)

[Brian Dolbec]

On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 22:43 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 13:11 Sun 17 Jul     , Michał Górny wrote:
> > The other side effect is the 'gentoopm' project [2,3], providing
> > an unified API to access all three PMs mentioned earlier. Right now, my
> > main focus is implementing new interfaces there, and moving the code
> > out of PMSTS to it.
> >
> > Right now, gentoopm has already made its first release into the tree,
> > and became used in smart-live-rebuild [4]. It is already able to find
> > packages in basic kinds of repositories, get their metadata and read
> > environment.bz2 files. It can work with atoms too.
> >
> > I'd like to make it able to construct (and use) PM tool calls for
> > various operations like installing and uninstall packages. It's going
> > to use a flexible interface, making it easy to fit into various working
> > environments -- printing argv, running through subprocess, glib event
> > loop, threads and so on.
>
> You might be interested in checking out what parts of the portage API
> are used by the Gentoo PackageKit backend, and making sure those are
> supported in gentoopm. Even more interesting would be completing a port
> of the PK backend to gentoopm. This latter part is clearly beyond the
> scope of your project, but it would be really useful after the summer
> ends.
>

Hey, i could use some help in creating the emerge action portion of the
portage public api.  I had been holding off for a bit until the
difference between the portage and pkgcore backends got resolved in
porthole.  I do have an early partial port of the packagekit backend.
Zac has also done a quick review and given some direction for it.

If your up for it, let me know

-- 
Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com>