13
Apr
My proposal for the Google Summer of Code to create a frontend for freebsd-update was accepted by the FreeBSD project.
My current design it to have a backend to control freebsd-update. This then talks to the frontend that lets the administrator update the machine and restart services as needed. I will have to come up with a protocol for the back and front ends to communicate in a secure manor. I also want to be able to extend what the backend can do, eg. update ports/packages, restart services or the whole computer.
Excellent project! About a year ago I was researching a way to hook up freebsd-update with zenity or to make freebsd-update emit DBUS messages so that a gnome applet could display notifications. I’m sure you’ll come up with a better implementation that will make freebsd on the desktop much more user-friendly.
Best of luck!
Excellent project ! Good luck !
that would really be interesting ; excellent project !
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