[packagekit] building packagekit from source

[Anders F Björklund]

Richard Hughes wrote:

>> Maybe it should support a fallback distro config file in /etc/
>> PackageKit ?
>> (like /etc/PackageKit/Distro.conf or whatever, if *-release isn't
>> found)
>>
>> So that adding a new distro doesn't need patching/recompiling, I
>> mean...
>
> The issue with this is that each distro stores the version, arch,
> release data in different files, in different ways. It's a difficult
> problem to solve.

Right, so if you dictated your own PackageKit format for it instead ?

Distro.conf
===========
Vendor=fedora
Version=9
Arch=i386

Again, more like an override if auto-detected values are wrong/missing.

--anders