[packagekit] PackageKit Collections

[Richard Hughes]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 14:05 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> I have a problem with the above approach, and using repoid for this...
> 
> Currently I have the same metapackage appearing in two package channels,
> say for instance fedora and fedora-updates - each with their own comps:

Right, so this scuppers using the data part of the package_id as a type.

> Now, if I replace the repo with '[meta]' then I now get two identical
> package_ids whereas before they would differ in their "data" section:
> 
> 'fedora-packager;0;noarch;[meta]'
> 'fedora-packager;0;noarch;[meta]'
> 'fedora-packager;0.3.0-1.fc9;noarch;fedora'
> 
> This is not good, since the package_id in PK must be unique for each ?
> And if I remove a dupe, then I'm not sure which one the id refers to ?

Exactly, the PackageId _must_ be unique.

> Is there somewhere to store the "is-a-meta-package", outside the  
> repoid ?

I think adding new info enums might be the best plan, something like:

PK_INFO_ENUM_COLLECTION_AVAILABLE
PK_INFO_ENUM_COLLECTION_INSTALLED

This also lets us trivially use the icon theming too.

We'll also need a new filter enum to filter out (or in) the meta
packages. Something like PK_FILTER_ENUM_META_PACKAGES or
PK_FILTER_ENUM_COLLECTIONS might be the best plan. Better names welcome.

Richard.