[packagekit] PackageKit Collections in yumBackend status.

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Tue Sep 16 01:06:26 PDT 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:08 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>> The following pk functions do now support metapackages in the yum backend.
>>
>> id = "name;meta;meta;meta" (Can be changed to something else if needed)
>>
>> install-packages id
>> remove-packages yes id
>> get-depends id
>> get-requires id
>>
>> search-name meta key
>> search-details meta key
>>
>> search-group filters "meta-packages"
>>
>> get-details don't work, because this don't make sence for a meta packages.
> 
> I think it needs to do something, as you currently get an error in
> gpk-application if you click on a collection. Can we just return the
> package summary in this case please?
> 
> Richard.
> 
OK, it should work for now
it will return details(id,"",<Group Name>,<Group Description>,"",0)
for now.

Tim


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