[packagekit] GNOME summit and more about GPG keys

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:13 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote:
> Interesting.  We'd still need a (backend specific?) way to convert the
> above strings into the actual packages the user needs.

Yeah, of course, but that can go into a backend. Notably, this is distro
(and probably even distro-version) specific as opposed to the current
backend interface that is depsolver-specific. Which is a problem for
different distros using the same depsolver (e.g. both Ubuntu and Debian
use apt-get but they may differ on this naming policy).

However, I think it's fine for yum/rpm based distros to assume they're
using something like

 Provides: modalias=usb:v413Cp8103d2422dcE0dsc01dp01icE0isc01ip01

or

 Provides: codec=audio/mpeg

otherwise you probably just want configure options to specify how to
build the backend, e.g.

 --yum-magicfind=fedora|rhel|pld|opensuse|sled

etc. and then do the right thing in the yum backend that these guys are
(or aren't) using.

     David