[packagekit] some things that are not quite right in 0.1.3

[Matthias Clasen]

On Nov 18, 2007 2:15 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> > - In pk-application, selecting groups does not work (with the yum
> > backend). The list just stays empty.
>
> If you do "pk-application --verbose" in a terminal does that spit out an
> obvious error?

Not really. When selecting a different group, I get

selected row is: education
[pk_client_allocate_transaction_id] pk-client.c:935 (16:00:22):  Got
tid: '8;abacecda;data'
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:22):        emit locked 1
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:22):        emit locked 1
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:22):        emit locked 1
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:22):        emit locked 1
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:23):        emit locked 0
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:23):        emit locked 0
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:23):        emit locked 0
[pk_client_locked_cb] pk-client.c:659 (16:00:23):        emit locked 0
[pk_client_progress_changed_cb] pk-client.c:403 (16:00:23):      emit
progress-changed 101, 101, 304, 0
[pk_client_finished_cb] pk-client.c:379 (16:00:24):      emit finished
success, 2143

and the package list stays empty


> > - Groups in yum comps are hierarchical, e.g there are groups for each
> > language. I don't see how that
> > is going to work with the flat list in pk-application.
>
> No, this has to stay flat - we can't have a bazillion things, as each
> one is an enumerated type with a translation and icon.

What is the vision for making this work with language groups ?
Crowding all the worlds languages in the "Localization" group is going
to suck...