On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 09:06 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote: > I've backported the PackageKit 0.5.x backend to 0.4.x, > and made some ports for it and the GNOME/KDE frontends. > > As described earlier, it uses portupgrade and portaudit > and compiles binary packages from source ports if needed. > > http://afb.users.sourceforge.net/packagekit/ > > Hopefully this will go into PackageKit 0.4.10, for use > while waiting for required PolicyKit/DeviceKit support. > > Besides some (unused) differences in API, the backend is > identical to the one in the latest PackageKit (0.5.2). > > Feedback appreciated, maintainer didn't respond.
Which maintainer? I'm quite excited about this work. We have the latest PolicyKit coming with GNOME 2.28 (once 8.0 is out the door). DeviceKit will probably never happen on FreeBSD. DK-power will be coming with GNOME 2.30, however. What kind of DK support does PackageKit require? Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gn...@freebsd.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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