Re: [Synaptic-devel] experimental task support added

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:50:48PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > Here is a screenshot of it in action:
> > http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/synaptic-with-tasks.png
> 
> Hey, super cool :)

Yeah! I like it as well :)
 
> > Please note, that we can easily change /usr/bin/tasksel to something
> > different or make it configurable via synaptic.conf or -o
> > Synaptic::taskHelperProg or something.
> 
> Attached patch changes it to -o Synaptic::taskHelperProg, defaulting to
> /usr/bin/tasksel and also fixes build on rpm-systems (please
> sanity-check, I only made it build, didn't check if it makes any sense
> :) 

Thanks, patch applied.

> And here's the obligatory proof from FC2 :)
> http://laiskiainen.org/stuff/synaptic-tasks-fc2.png

Cool!
 
> > Synaptic works on quite a few distributions. To make support for the
> > various task systems easy synaptic needs a helper application called
> > "/usr/bin/tasksel". It has to support the following commands:
> > 
> > --list-tasks: returns a list of the format
> >               "$taskname\t$task-short-description"
> > 
> > --task-packages $task: list the packages included in the given task
> >                        this option can be used more than once for
> >                        different tasks
> > 
> > --task-descr $task: print a long description about the given task
> 
> Ok, apt-groupinstall needs to be modified talk this protocol then. Not a
> big deal, the operations match 100% it's just syntax which differs
> somewhat.
 
Yeah, we talked about what kind of functions we need and this is what
I remebered :)

Great to hear that it (mostley) is easy to integrate with FC. If you
have any questions or suggestions, just let me know :)

bye,
 Michael