[packagekit] PackageKit Collections.

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Sun Sep 14 06:43:16 PDT 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:

>> For some backends, it is tricky to know which packages are
>> metapackages
>> without resorting to some heuristic like "doesn't have any files in
>> it"
>> or "the source package name starts with meta- or task-" or other
>> guesses.
>> But I guess those could just list the metapackages in the regular
>> groups ?
>
> Now the info enum is chosen from INFO_COLLECTION_AVAILABLE and
> INFO_COLLECTION_INSTALLED.

OK, now implemented for Smart...

It will use "INFO_COLLECTION_*" for yum and yast metapackages,
and "INFO_*" for rpm and deb metapackages (= regular packages).

Dumping all of the collection metapackages in the COLLECTIONS
group, and also added the COLLECTIONS/NOT_COLLECTIONS filters.

--anders



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