Re: Fwd: [gentoo-embedded] openmoko overlay?

["Ângelo Miguel Arrifano" <miknix@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:00:14 -0400
"Christopher Friedt" <chrisfriedt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ângelo,
> 
> Are you still interested in hacking the openmoko-appmanager as Ned had
> suggested earlier? I can definitely use an application like that
> personally and this project would probably give me a lot of relevent
> experience for other projects that I'm working on.

Yes, that's something I'll do.
> 
> Honestly, I haven't found a lot of documentation about Gentoo's tbz2
> format, but maybe I can learn something about it by making
> openmoko-appmanager work with Gentoo's package format.
> 
> If public tbz2 format documentation doesn't already exist, I could
> definitely contribute some new documentation for a public,
> language-independent API.
> 
> Are you aware of any existing Gentoo binary package documentation?

Look, for example, at qpkg.c source on portage-utils which Ned is one
of the authors.

-Angelo
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
> Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] openmoko overlay?
> To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:25 -0400, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> One of the problems that miknix has run into so far is that the
> openmoko-appmanager depends on ipkg and friends. There was some talk of
> recoding/hacking on that one to make it portage-utils aware. Feel free
> to discuss that further with him.
> 
> ...