From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 14 16:15:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE1BC61D for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x22d.google.com (mail-we0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22d]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A6A6C7 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f173.google.com with SMTP id t57so3038179wey.4 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:15:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=MUdjoyPhTvJuArTcYB6j38gi7ge1EprFP92443fTjjU=; b=yGmOHlR6kFs3Mc2VfBbfLsb0qzQo9CSAkjHJs8yk70WzOA5sM6V/+17WvzzFm3z55P rgN2T8P3/czezhriIPKTY18j9VOoFZ2yH2iJCIr9eA8x0rpdAHR3V7VpN19NiIfMHxuE ad9iUmy6GX7+vMEB+EWkx+W+9LtuTvRMdMuExNESFu+S8WWrOu3X6XbjtQQpEgpe5lBr pt7M5uoDg8xp/z4GUBKcI7EqFN4H6r97JHcW4UDbLFdmowm5+gEU7QCzn0i4Tn+l5MdZ fTLhT/ktIopiy8lWNVw4UZMIhQreGlOaIbPnYIHzhKjbYNrizR+KMp4tHwSa0ABvWriD iQiw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.60.195 with SMTP id j3mr27312123wjr.33.1365956119509; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.139.72 with HTTP; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:15:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:15:19 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Justin Edward Muniz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Eitan Adler , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:15:20 -0000 On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: >> >> I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be >> useful. >> >> One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may >> already have similar things. >> >> Very interesting, I am checking out the source for PC-BSD's updater to > study it. > Portsnap and pkgng seem like interesting projects, would it be bizarre to > combine > functionality into one GUI? I need to do more research on pkgng, I am more > familiar > with the other commands. Please don't mix the two, they are related but their usages do not really overlap. portsnap(8) only deals with keeping the ports(7) tree and the /usr/ports/INDEX file up to date. PKGNG (like the old pkg_* tools) is mostly concerned with registering built ports as packages or installing pre-built packages in the system. Some functionality of it does use the ports tree but it does not depend on it. I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools do not offer at the moment? -Kimmo