[packagekit] Newest Group?

[Anders F Björklund]

Sebastian Heinlein wrote:

> Am Montag, den 13.10.2008, 14:31 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
>> In bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17837 the user
>> describes a group that contains all the newest packages.
>>
>> Is there a way a backend could provide a meta-group for the last 50
>> newest added packages? Does any other backend other than apt provide
>> this information?
>
> Added means new in the repository here: Which packages have been
> introduced in the repository since the last refresh or a given time.
>
> Actually this is not a feature of apt. This was implemented in both
> tools synaptic and aptitude separatly. I would like to avoid having a
> third database/implementation in the packagekit backend. But perhaps
> this feature will be moved to apt.

The smart backend has this feature too, it prints on "smart update".
Like "Channels have 42 new packages". Or with: smart flag --show new

--anders