[Apt-Rpm] Adding a .pc file for pkg-config detection
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Aug 22 22:33:03 PDT 2007
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> My name is Richard Hughes and I'm the main author of PackageKit.
>
> In PackageKit we use apt-rpm for the apt backend on debian systems. On
> fedora we default to yum, but some users prefer the apt tools, and I
> need to test it on my own machine.
Yup, been intending to take a look at PackageKit one of these days...
> For the apt detection we would like to use
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APT,libapt-pkg) for the apt detection, but it
> appears that libapt-rpm does not include a pkgconfig file for this to
> work.
>
> There's an open debian bug here: http://bugs.debian.org/439121
>
> I've attached a trivial patch to add this functionality, which I would
> appreciate if you could check and then merge upstream. Many thanks.
This is something I've been planning to do for quite a while now, just
haven't gotten around to it :) Applied, thanks!
- Panu -
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