From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QifKa-0002Bb-6y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:21:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EC0921C063; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:21:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE2E21C063 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:21:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk6 with SMTP id 6so3293919pzk.12 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:21:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; bh=9VaWevDcmWgWLElv5l0UjgzXFQYykkARS0UvESp8ilc=; b=IYjFCxVcw7Q4P7x9KPsAyUCiYjim+3hcN9Zv36neKODsH34mwmc2IRifDbW6hHmD8K B3/527j/ToXIf41Sps8gEw8VIsQ4NyqUrzVQ3VIJ2J2hQsIywvkXpH2w2ISbqYI8E3e/ /jqAYi3IeGc17beu8hv79Uq8rnsUBT/MGQ3vM= Received: by 10.68.63.229 with SMTP id j5mr4659878pbs.172.1310962869365; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.210] (xx34168008.cipherkey.com [207.34.168.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e9sm2283630pbh.92.2011.07.17.21.21.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:21:08 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] PMS Test Suite, weekly report #10 (midterm sumup) From: Brian Dolbec To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20110718034348.GB3709@comet> References: <20110717131118.17fcf4da@pomiocik.lan> <20110718034348.GB3709@comet> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-PWbdZKtvzwTB2UYNXcac" Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:21:05 -0700 Message-ID: <1310962865.3297.11.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6e69db54967db6c1f3e64d23294a4881 --=-PWbdZKtvzwTB2UYNXcac Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 22:43 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 13:11 Sun 17 Jul , Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > The other side effect is the 'gentoopm' project [2,3], providing > > an unified API to access all three PMs mentioned earlier. Right now, my > > main focus is implementing new interfaces there, and moving the code > > out of PMSTS to it. > >=20 > > Right now, gentoopm has already made its first release into the tree, > > and became used in smart-live-rebuild [4]. It is already able to find > > packages in basic kinds of repositories, get their metadata and read > > environment.bz2 files. It can work with atoms too. > >=20 > > I'd like to make it able to construct (and use) PM tool calls for > > various operations like installing and uninstall packages. It's going > > to use a flexible interface, making it easy to fit into various working > > environments -- printing argv, running through subprocess, glib event > > loop, threads and so on. >=20 > You might be interested in checking out what parts of the portage API=20 > are used by the Gentoo PackageKit backend, and making sure those are=20 > supported in gentoopm. Even more interesting would be completing a port= =20 > of the PK backend to gentoopm. This latter part is clearly beyond the=20 > scope of your project, but it would be really useful after the summer=20 > ends. >=20 Hey, i could use some help in creating the emerge action portion of the portage public api. I had been holding off for a bit until the difference between the portage and pkgcore backends got resolved in porthole. I do have an early partial port of the packagekit backend. Zac has also done a quick review and given some direction for it. If your up for it, let me know --=20 Brian Dolbec --=-PWbdZKtvzwTB2UYNXcac Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJOI7SxAAoJECIU2QoBTxfLPlsH/3qgNg2JZO2fTAZwYOzXbPf4 aGQZ3oRm9YQVOitd+oJ14iKLpn1H1FVVEXr9fjuH+3dQIWtt/wLNO8I6prVFVAEl KGzAxfOWz8s/Set8rpfYMt+5Os7PDJl1g9DuVGcRBe3e7U8/qoKTRH0DQbjIh52s SDetfs8sVmXyk6N36rXwQ8GiZbVgwwofdXp4sCVbS83A5GM6KHs3+d/A2fRi7zX2 RjhIPStx4mNWEZ4kNorbJHi4UfqMTQxvgPrMpwABQrK6DdjysGAhDl8PSkLL3fWh eeTQk+XnysEfETlqAknWLrYUB9FJT3di1t6HkyzDrGo+aFfcfU7zJ/x0YAoFC+k= =fueu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-PWbdZKtvzwTB2UYNXcac--