[packagekit] PackageKit on different operating systems

[Anders F Björklund]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> On 18 October 2010 16:19, Laszlo Papp <djszapi at archlinux.us> wrote:
>> Can be PackageKit (or packagekit-qt, KPackageKit) used on other
>> operating systems, like windows or BSDs (Mac) ?
>
> Yes. I've compiled PackageKit on FreeBSD recently, and it compiles
> fine using mingw32. The thing that limits you is what backends are
> supported, for instance on Windows only the "dummy" backend works.

FreeBSD has the "ports" backend, which uses the regular tools like
portupgrade/portaudit/portsnap, and PackageKit is in the ports tree:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/packagekit/
And "gnome-packagekit" and "kpackagekit" ports are also available...

I don't think there are any backends for Mac OS X or for Windows ?
But you could run the Smart backend, if you had a package manager.

--anders