[packagekit] New backend: Slackware Slapt

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Wed Sep 9 23:50:11 PDT 2009


I added a simplistic initial backend for "slapt-get",
which is used with Slackware and other distributions
based on it like Vector or Wolwix (but both untried).

http://software.jaos.org/

It's a compiled backend (C), which links to libslapt.
There are no dependencies available in Slackware, they
can be added "afterwards" from a third-party repository.

http://www.stabellini.net/depslack.html

Slackware 13.0 has GLib 2.18.4, so it doesn't have the
new PolicyKit meaning that it currently only runs with
"dummy" security - until the backend can be backported.

http://www.algonet.se/~afb/slack/packagekit/

It has some interesting "quirks", like a package Source
does not have any information beyond an URL and a prio -
so currently the MD5 of that is used as the "repo id"...

--anders


PS.
Slack packages are also available with the Smart backend
Branch at https://code.launchpad.net/~smartpm/smart/slack




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