packagekit backend for pacman/libalpm?

baze · 2007-08-23 18:30:26

planet.gnome.org had some posts about packagekit recently and various backends are in the work atm, such as yum, apt and conary. since i don't have the skills to write a backend for pacman, i'd like to know if anyone has started or plans on writing a pacman backend.

Cerebral · 2007-08-23 20:20:54

Hm. I'd never heard of this before, but you know what, it sounds interesting. I'm now personally contemplating writing a backend for this.

hussam · 2007-08-23 20:28:59

That's cool. A gnome based package manager is a brilliant idea.
Cerebral, if you do make a pacman backend for this, I'm willing to give it a shot.

Cerebral · 2007-08-23 20:43:14

hussam wrote:

That's cool. A gnome based package manager is a brilliant idea.

Less of a gnome-based package manager, and more of a front-end that supports many, many package managers. I think that's cool - an approach to unify the crazy diversity in this area is a great step.

ro0x · 2007-08-28 20:10:33

that's cool men! plz make a patch for packagekit!

Cerebral · 2007-08-28 20:47:10

I've been looking over the packagekit code and contemplating implementation over the last few days, and I'm willing to give it a shot. This will help me learn the alpm interface too, so whee.

I'll keep the forums informed about any real progress I make.

Misfit138 · 2007-08-28 21:28:36

Cerebral wrote:

I've been looking over the packagekit code and contemplating implementation over the last few days, and I'm willing to give it a shot. This will help me learn the alpm interface too, so whee.
I'll keep the forums informed about any real progress I make.

nesl247 · 2007-09-08 21:35:18

Just curious if you've started working on this at all. I was quite interested in this.

Cimi · 2007-09-09 12:12:17

interested too...

Cerebral · 2007-09-09 12:20:05

I haven't done much - things have been busy. All I've really done is taken the config-file parsing code from pacman and modified it so it would work from within PackageKit, but that's it. I meant to do lots last week, but something came up, and this weekend I got sideswiped with a surprise birthday party and I think my wife has plans for me today, so I doubt much will get done with PackageKit today.

I'm still interested in doing this; just not finding the time to get it done.

tradiaz · 2007-09-09 12:57:14

Oh I didn't know you were about to write a backend so I started yesterday.
I didn't get far however.
I just saw this thread after I started a new thread about it

Cerebral · 2007-09-09 14:42:42

tradiaz wrote:

Oh I didn't know you were about to write a backend so I started yesterday.
I didn't get far however.
I just saw this thread after I started a new thread about it

All the power to you then - I really haven't gotten far at all. If you are making real progress then that's awesome.

sasv · 2007-09-09 16:32:43

Hi,

I'd like to help out with some code. Is there a place for collaboration yet?

tradiaz · 2007-09-09 19:34:26

That's cool!
There's no such place yet. I'll commit the code to packagekit's git soon.
The maintainer said he'd like to see it there despite it's not ready at all.
At the moment backend_initalize, backend_destroy and backend_search_name are implemented.
You can ask him for a git account if you want to start coding.

nesl247 · 2007-09-10 01:02:10

Guys, here is my packagekit repo: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 86#p280186

Cimi · 2008-03-24 14:07:53

Up!

Pnevma · 2008-04-11 23:07:26

Well this sounds interesting.

onestep_ua · 2008-05-06 22:27:50

PackageKit 0.2.0 has been released today - everyone is welcome to test.

imachine · 2008-08-03 21:09:49

is that a libalpm or pacman using backend then?

manudwarf · 2009-09-01 15:54:54

Hello,

I'm new to ArchLinux and I find this idea great, also let me present me :
I'm a french IT student and I've some projects to validate and the end of my studies. These projects may be personnal or with any enterprise or community.
If you agree, I could contribute to that kind of application. I don't really know how does packagekit works, but if someone does, we could work together. I know well C(++) and common tools ([auto]make, cmake, etc.), particularly Qt and KDE frameworks (KPackagekit ?).
Thus I could present this work as a project supervised by someone from the Arch community.

If my keyboard may help you, leave me a PM

bangkok_manouel · 2009-09-01 16:16:29

manudwarf wrote:

Hello,
I'm new to ArchLinux and I find this idea great, also let me present me :
I'm a french IT student and I've some projects to validate and the end of my studies. These projects may be personnal or with any enterprise or community.
If you agree, I could contribute to that kind of application. I don't really know how does packagekit works, but if someone does, we could work together. I know well C(++) and common tools ([auto]make, cmake, etc.), particularly Qt and KDE frameworks (KPackagekit ?).
Thus I could present this work as a project supervised by someone from the Arch community.
If my keyboard may help you, leave me a PM

salut manu et bienvenue a toi.

just a few advices as you are new here. please do not resurrect dead threads [ please see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27 ], create a new one instead, I'm sure you'll find some archers interested in your project.

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2009-09-01 16:19:38)

manudwarf · 2009-09-01 16:28:02

bangkok_manouel wrote:

salut manu et bienvenue a toi.
just a few advices as you are new here. please do not resurrect dead threads [ please see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27 ], create a new one instead, I'm sure you'll find some archers interested in your project.

Thank's for the link, and sorry for the inconvenience.

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packagekit backend for pacman/libalpm?

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