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