[Apt-Rpm] Adding a .pc file for pkg-config detection

[Richard Hughes]

On 23/08/07, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> wrote:
> 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...

Cool - it's coming on very fast now. If you use F8 there are rpm's in my repo.

> > 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!

Sweet, thanks!

Richard.