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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:

> 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.

I'm still on F7, enough "excitement" in hacking rpm without pulling 
F8-test into the picture :)

>
>>> 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!

FYI, I just put out 0.5.15lorg3.93 (official announcement yet to be done 
:) for this and some other issues and building it for rawhide, should be 
there in the next push.

 	- Panu -