Re: web based APT

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Ravishankar Srinivasan wrote:

> Gentlemen,
> 
> I wanted to ask if there any web based front ends for apt-get?if there 
> are none..may i ask what would be the best way to go about writing 
> one?let's say it's CGI based..then are there perl Module hooks to APT?

Such a beast does exist, see the thread beginning at 
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/pipermail/apt-rpm/2003-September/001977.html
IIRC Richard has been talking to upstream to get the necessary rpm-fixes 
into libapt-pkg-perl but dunno the status of that, nor how well the perl 
bindings actually work.

Python bindings specifically made for apt-rpm do exist as well, see the 
python/ directory in apt-rpm source directory. I've been playing with that 
quite a lot and while there are some things missing the python-bindings 
give you fairly full access to libapt-pkg features. 

But no, I haven't heard of a web frontend for apt :)

	- Panu -