[packagekit] Apt backend

[Ken VanDine]

Ali, yes please send it to Richard off list.

Thanks,
--Ken

On 10/25/07, Ali Sabil <ali.sabil at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:31 +0200, Ali Sabil wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have been playing around with PackageKit since it looks like a
> > > pretty cool thing to have fun with, and since I am running an debian
> > > based distro, I wanted to improve the apt backend. However, I was not
> > > really very sure about why the old backend did duplicate the cache
> > > into a sqlite database, so I ended up writing a new backend, which is
> > > similar to the current yum and conary backends (based on python
> > > helpers).
> > >
> > > If anyone is interested in this new backend, I have hosted a git
> > > branch here: git://people.freedesktop.org/~asabil/packagekit
> > >
> > > All comments/suggestions/flames are welcome ;)
> >
> > I can't test this - I don't do apt - but it certainly looks very clean.
> > What about moving the old apt backend to apt.old and checking this to
> > the packagekit.org server?
> >
> > Ali, can you send me your public ssh key and chosen username offlist,
> > and I'll give you commit on the development server.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I am not against merging this code into the baseline, and renaming the
> old backend into apt.old, can you please do it? since am not very used
> to git yet.
>
> Concerning my public ssh key, shall I send it to you personally by mail ?
>
> --
> Ali
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Ken VanDine
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