From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 5 17:01:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA751065670; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:01:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from afb@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BDC8FC20; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from c83-248-163-98.bredband.comhem.se ([83.248.163.98]:61985 helo=[10.0.1.101]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Muqvu-000606-7h; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:01:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1254760672.1257.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <763CF6A3-0948-43A2-9E0B-7B07B4211690@users.sourceforge.net> <1254758809.1257.11.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1254760672.1257.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <34B6F1DE-9120-494B-BB02-2706AD1D78DF@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:01:07 +0200 To: Joe Marcus Clarke X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Originating-IP: 83.248.163.98 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Muqvu-000606-7h. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Muqvu-000606-7h eb70959f904ce51b2ed646cb6d56da6f Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PackageKit Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:01:35 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> Didn't post the ports earlier (before this backend backport), >> since it was kinda useless to run with the "dummy" backend. :-) > > No problem. I did notice some nits in the plist of packagekit. You > should not include blank lines (even to logically segment > sections). If > you want true separation, use separate plists. Once I have some time, > I'll go through them in more detail. I'd love to get them committed. Will make some real PR requests for the ports for you to review, then. (thought I had run them all through "portlint", but I'm new at it all) Hopefully that megapatch + autogen won't be needed after 0.4.10 either. >> Currently PackageKit requires both PolicyKitOne (0.9x) and also >> Glib 2.22+, which was why it needed to wait for GNOME 2.28 etc. > > If you want to test the latest version with GNOME 2.28, see > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html . We have GNOME 2.28 > with polkit-0.9.4 in the tree. I do have some PackageKit-devel etc. ports, but couldn't keep up with the development during GNOME 2.27... Now that GNOME 2.28 (and GPackageKit 2.28 and GLib 2.22) has been released, I might. >> gnome-packagekit requires DeviceKit-power for "battery" support, >> but I added a disabler meanwhile (i.e. assume power is connected). > > Cool. That support will be coming. They have finally merged a branch > of DK-power which offers modular backend support. My project for > GNOME > 2.30 is DK-power. For my desktop, battery support wasn't really "mandatory" anyway... (Moblin developers had another opinion, so it's required in 2.28.0) But I'm also normally using either KDE or Xfce, rather than GNOME. --anders