[packagekit] severity information in the yum backend

[Tim Lauridsen]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hey, I spent some time tonight trying to get severity information to
> work with the yum backend,
> but failed.
> 
> To test this, I created a minimal "someapp" rpm and set up a yum
> repository with a fake security update
> for someapp. The updateinfo.xml was handwritten, then added to the
> repo with modifyrepo. I spent some time
> tweaking it until yum parsed it without choking.  I'd be happy to make
> this testcase available somewhere, if
> people are interested.
> 
> After adding the repo to my yum configuration, the update showed up in
> pk-update-viewer, but as a normal
> update. After some poking around (essentially blind poking, I'm a
> Python illiterate), I figured out that the
> yum backend probably needs this patch:
> 
> --- a/backends/yum/helpers/yumBackend.py
> +++ b/backends/yum/helpers/yumBackend.py
> @@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ class PackageKitYumBackend(PackageKitBaseBackend):
>              self._updateMetadata = UpdateMetadata()
>              for repo in self.yumbase.repos.listEnabled():
>                  try:
> -                    md.add(repo)
> +                    self._updateMetadata.add(repo)
>                  except:
>                      pass # No updateinfo.xml.gz in repo
>          return self._updateMetadata
> 
> 
> Matthias
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Thanks, committed

Tim