Qt and GTK+ Front Ends for PKGNG

• Student: JustinMuniz
• Mentor: EitanAdler lists@eitanadler.com

PackageKit and pkgng are wonderful tools, this Google Summer of Code project aims to combine them into a complex, creative, and easy to use user experience. Currently FreeBSD's PackageKit port has support for the ports system but not binary package management. PackageKit currently also is in need of maintenance and contains several bugs. The most noticeable updates for the user interfaces will be the inclusion of features specific to FreeBSD; which will provide a much better user experience whether using pkgng or ports.

PackageKit has been available in the ports system with a ports back end. In order to use PackageKit to offer a GUI, a pkgng back end will need to be developed. The Qt and GTK+ front ends for PackageKit, KPackageKit and gnome-packagekit respectively, have some issues that need to be resolved or at least better understood. In order to take advantage of all of the great features of FreeBSD and pkgng, enhancements will be made to both PackageKit front ends. Enhancements that do not rely on pkgng will be available when using the ports back end.

• Help develop pkgng back end for PackageKit

• KPackageKit
• gnome-packagekit

Instructions on downloading, installing, and testing this software is in the TESTING file.

For help using the code in this repository, please read README.

• Subversion: https://socsvn.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2013/jmuniz/
• Web interface: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2013/jmuniz/

• http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.html#Qt-and-GTK+-Frontends-for-pkg(8)

• Progress Report 1
• Progress Report 2
• Progress Report 3
• Progress Report 4

An up-to-date task list is in the repository, see TODO.

There aren't any screenshots of the interfaces, just yet.

Video tutorials will introduce users to the features introduced by this project.

• Apper information: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Apper?content=84745
• Apper repository: https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/sysadmin/apper/repository
• gnome-packagekit user's manual: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-packagekit/stable/
• Google Summer of Code proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/justin_muniz/1
• Guide to using PC-BSD package repository: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Turn_FreeBSD_into_PC-BSD®
• Matt Windsor's GSoC Project: pkgPackagekit
• PackageKit: http://www.packagekit.org/
• pkgng (now 'pkg') Wiki page

• Apper (formerly KPackageKit): http://anongit.kde.org/apper
• gnome-packagekit: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-packagekit
• Matt Windsor's pkgng PackageKit back end: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/socsvn/soc2013/mattbw/
• PackageKit: https://git.gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit.git
• PC-BSD System Package Manager: https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd/tree/master/src-qt4/pc-pkgmanager
• pkgng: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg

• FreeBSD Gnome (PackageKit, gnome-packagekit): http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome
• FreeBSD KDE (KPackageKit): https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
• PackageKit: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit
• pkgng: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pkg/

• EFnet
  • #freebsd-soc

• Freenode
  • #freebsd-gnome
  • #kde-freebsd
  • #packagekit
  • #pkgng