2009/6/16 Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@g.o>:
[...]
> The main difficulties for this project is the source-based aspect of
> Gentoo and the verbosity of portage. I mean even if PackageKit is
> designed to fit every needs, portage backend is the first source-based
> distribution backend and we will have to adapt some things. In addition,
> some information provided by portage like ewarn and elog messages and
> new configuration files have to be prompted even when using PackageKit.

So does the interface already allow the PM to pass back messages?

> So, where are we right now ?
> The planning says "every basic features should be done June 15th".
> Actually, I still have to do 2 features : list update candidates and do
> update. Every other basic features (install, remove, sync, details, dep,
> reverse-dep, groups, ...) have been done.

Sounds pretty cool.

[...]
> What's going to be done right now ?
> Repositories management have to be added. With zmedico, we were talking
> about doing this directly in the portage api. Basically, it will be
> merging layman into portage. It's not 100% sure right now but probable.
> Beginning the hard work of messages management and bug fixes.
>
> I will try, to add needed ebuilds in the tree this week to let people
> test PackageKit on Gentoo as it will be "usable" even if not recommended
> yet. That's what we call an alpha version I think ;)

So how are you testing this stuff? Are you using an existing PK-aware frontend?

Best,
-- 
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)