Frugalpkg - Frugalware's pacman frontend ported to Arch (experimental)

Schpariel · 2007-08-26 19:16:46

http://smfadi.googlepages.com/frugalpkg … h-5.tar.gz
http://file-pasta.com/d/1922.gz

Remember that this is an experimental port, it has a few crude hacks, and it's not 100% tested, also:

* It's slow, because it reads from pacman's stdout, but still usable
* The code is a bit messy (I might fix that later)

The source files in the above tarball are already patched, the patches are still included in the ARCH_PATCHES folder for reference though

EDIT: 27/08/07
* Enabled interactive search (search as you type in the package list)
* Added extra groups: Installed, Not installed, Local & Orphans

Any comments/suggestions are welcome

Last edited by Schpariel (2007-08-29 13:52:17)

Misfit138 · 2007-08-26 20:00:02

Very nice, looks promising! I might have to install an 'experimental' Arch on a spare HD to test this out.

hussam · 2007-08-26 20:05:25

looks good but it is a bit slow. I didn't use it to install or upgrade anything but it seems to launch and run well. Keep us updated.

smoon · 2007-08-26 20:58:11

Nice work. I'd prefer a pacman backend for PackageKit though.

Last edited by smoon (2007-08-26 20:58:54)

Cerebral · 2007-08-26 21:05:31

smoon wrote:

Nice work. I'd prefer a pacman backend for PackageKit though.

I'm looking into it - familiarizing myself with PackageKit's C implementation for backends and trying to stuff pacman into it.

smoon · 2007-08-27 10:34:15

Cerebral wrote:

smoon wrote:
Nice work. I'd prefer a pacman backend for PackageKit though.
I'm looking into it - familiarizing myself with PackageKit's C implementation for backends and trying to stuff pacman into it.

Wow, that's great. Let me know if you need any help

Schpariel · 2007-08-27 11:21:07

Updated, and added a few more patches/fixes

I think it's good enough for real usage now, here's a PKGBUILD:

# Contributor: Fadi Moukayed <smfadi@gmail.com>

pkgname=frugalpkg-arch
pkgver=1.1
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc="Port of the Frugalware package manager for Arch, uses pygtk"
url="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=276263#p276263"
arch=('i686')
license="GPL"
depends=('pygtk')
source=("http://smfadi.googlepages.com/frugalpkg-$pkgver-arch-$pkgrel.tar.gz")
md5sums=('9606ae07e0e29154ec98ac8c95042343')

build () {
    cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
    rm mime/*
    sed -e 's/|| exit [45]//' install > install-arch
    sh install-arch --root=$startdir/pkg --prefix=/usr
}

Last edited by Schpariel (2007-08-29 13:53:50)

hussam · 2007-08-27 12:47:00

Schpariel, since we remove the /usr/share/doc , could you remove the help toolbar button in Frugalpkg?

Schpariel · 2007-08-27 13:16:57

hussam wrote:

Schpariel, since we remove the /usr/share/doc , could you remove the help toolbar button in Frugalpkg?

Done. Thanks for reminding me, I can't believe I missed that >_>

hussam · 2007-08-27 13:53:36

Ok great Schpariel.

There's also another thing. When I press on 'New Packages', it keeps saying under 'I'm working on' "creating package list". It doesn't freeze but the 'creating package list' message doesn't go away. Maybe it doesn't handle an empty 'New Packages' ?

When I click on 'New packages', it spits this error in the terminal.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/frugalpkg", line 838, in <lambda>
    tview1.connect('cursor_changed', lambda tview1: change_group())
  File "/usr/bin/frugalpkg", line 65, in change_group
    for package in get_packages(group):
  File "/usr/bin/frugalpkg", line 611, in get_packages
    packages.append([package, version, 'gtk-new'])
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'package' referenced before assignment

But otherwise, it's working great.

Schpariel · 2007-08-27 14:29:07

hussam wrote:

Ok great Schpariel.
There's also another thing. When I press on 'New Packages', it keeps saying under 'I'm working on' "creating package list". It doesn't freeze but the 'creating package list' message doesn't go away. Maybe it doesn't handle an empty 'New Packages' ?
When I click on 'New packages', it spits this error in the terminal.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/frugalpkg", line 838, in <lambda>
    tview1.connect('cursor_changed', lambda tview1: change_group())
  File "/usr/bin/frugalpkg", line 65, in change_group
    for package in get_packages(group):
  File "/usr/bin/frugalpkg", line 611, in get_packages
    packages.append([package, version, 'gtk-new'])
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'package' referenced before assignment
But otherwise, it's working great.

Yes, this is a minor annoyance; but apart from that, it's harmless. I'll fix it in the next -pkgrel.

EDIT: Updated links & PKGBUILD, this is fixed now

Last edited by Schpariel (2007-08-27 15:02:13)

krix · 2007-08-27 20:24:52

Nice but outdated. I mean frugalpkg.

We got a new tool written in pure C and GTK+ frontend. It designed for pacman3.X then redesigned to fit pacman-g2 and now uses libpacman (libarch in pacman3) .

Devel tree:

http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb … ;a=summary

Shots:

http://frugalware.org/~krix/screenshots/gfpm_shot1.png
http://frugalware.org/~krix/screenshots/gfpm_shot2.png

There is a small 'bug' in that picture, well gnome-screenshot taker wasn't so good

There is no release, because its still in development

Regards
-krix-

hussam · 2007-09-01 20:14:55

krix, it won't build on arch even after fixing the includes.

priyank · 2007-09-05 12:51:46

gfpm-1.0.0 is out.

tarball : ftp://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/gfpm … 0.0.tar.gz

shots : http://frugalware.org/~priyank/gfpm

hussam · 2007-09-10 03:56:55

It won't build. it has references to pacman.h

shining · 2007-09-10 10:23:07

hussam wrote:

It won't build. it has references to pacman.h

It's a frugalware app, it isn't supposed to work with pacman3.
You either need to install their pacman (I think its called pacman-g2 currently), but I don't recommend it unless you really know what you're doing, since it might mess things up. Better use frugalware directly.
Or you need to port this app to pacman3, so start hacking now

Schpariel · 2007-09-11 17:00:28

shining wrote:

hussam wrote:
It won't build. it has references to pacman.h
It's a frugalware app, it isn't supposed to work with pacman3.
You either need to install their pacman (I think its called pacman-g2 currently), but I don't recommend it unless you really know what you're doing, since it might mess things up. Better use frugalware directly.
Or you need to port this app to pacman3, so start hacking now

I took a look at the source, and I don't have enough patience to port it, they're using pacman 2.x (libalpm didn't exist back then).
I guess a PackageKit backend is a good idea, they don't seem to have any good documentation though (?)

shining · 2007-09-11 17:26:26

Schpariel wrote:

I took a look at the source, and I don't have enough patience to port it, they're using pacman 2.x (libalpm didn't exist back then).
I guess a PackageKit backend is a good idea, they don't seem to have any good documentation though (?)

What made you think that?
For example, looks there :
http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb … 12;hb=HEAD

#include <pacman.h>
....
pacman_db_unregister (sync_db);

They just renamed libalpm to libpacman, so did s/alpm/pacman/ everywhere.
Maybe you could try doing it back
Otherwise yes, you could try helping for the PackageKit backend :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36575
Ask tradiaz about it.

krix · 2007-09-11 17:48:26

Well. We did not do a s/alpm/pacman/ only

Search for alternatives. BTW why we use a alpm name (arch linux package manager) when pacman-g2 no more releated to archlinux.

BTW i know gfpm wont build with arch pacman because of API/ABI difference in the whole code.

Regards
-krix-

Ps.: http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb … ME;hb=HEAD

A full changelog and overview what changed and news in pacman-g2 and about libpacman, pacman.h change

Last edited by krix (2007-09-11 17:49:19)

priyank · 2007-09-11 17:49:05

shining wrote:

Schpariel wrote:
I took a look at the source, and I don't have enough patience to port it, they're using pacman 2.x (libalpm didn't exist back then).
I guess a PackageKit backend is a good idea, they don't seem to have any good documentation though (?)
What made you think that?
For example, looks there :
http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb … 12;hb=HEAD
#include <pacman.h>
....
pacman_db_unregister (sync_db);
They just renamed libalpm to libpacman, so did s/alpm/pacman/ everywhere.
Maybe you could try doing it back
Otherwise yes, you could try helping for the PackageKit backend :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36575
Ask tradiaz about it.

We have not simply renamed libalpm to libpacman. It includes features that arch's pacman-3 doesn't have.
You may want to read this -> http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb … ME;hb=HEAD

shining · 2007-09-11 18:27:41

priyank wrote:

We have not simply renamed libalpm to libpacman. It includes features that arch's pacman-3 doesn't have.

I never meant to say it was the only change, sorry if that's what you understood...
I was thinking that this change might be the one that led to confusion.

s26c.sayan · 2007-10-24 20:10:17

hussam wrote:

looks good but it is a bit slow. I didn't use it to install or upgrade anything but it seems to launch and run well. Keep us updated.

echo!!

Good job....:)

Roberth · 2007-10-24 20:48:47

Maybe time to fork frugalpkg? rename it to Archpkg?

s26c.sayan · 2007-10-25 06:30:12

Roberth wrote:

Maybe time to fork frugalpkg? rename it to Archpkg?

Yeh....a rename would look good!

Misfit138 · 2007-10-26 01:07:44

Oh boy oh boy oh boy....I wish I could code!
A good, solid, strongly developed and embraced frontend for pacman is so desirable to me, I can taste it!
Arch programmers.......ASSEMBLE ! ! !
GO!

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