Hi Kunal, 2009/3/29 kunal ghosh <kunal.t2 at gmail.com>: > hi guys, i've been working on a GUI for the DistroConstructor and have come > across a problem. > to get the info about a package to be put on a table, like the existing > package manager, i am doing as follows > 1.pkg list -a to get the list of package names > 2.pkg info <package> to get its info and parse it and put it in the table. > alternately i could do pkg info -r to get all the package info > but the problem is that it takes a lot of time , about a minute or so, which > is unacceptable for a wizard app. > Any suggestions , or means, to get the details of all packages of registered > authorities faster ?
Hmmh, what and where exactly - are you having in mind the set of packages which go into the new LiveCD? Sorry for my previous response, I was half-asleep. Why would you call the IPS pkg command? Why not simply write a GU-Interface for exactly each step the sliminstall-version of DC is performing? Which table do you want to build (table of pkgs for the new distro?), which functionality do you want it to have? Start simple, by matching the current DC 1:1 (translated into GUI mode). Extra features, if desired, should wait until the 1:1 depiction works. %martin
