[packagekit] I've broken all your nice backend code...

[Richard Hughes]

On 6 June 2012 09:46, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:
> "Pretty badly", I suppose... The smart package itself and the config
> is still not updated, so it has the 2010 version and fc13.89 repos[*].

That's pretty bad.

> Updated the API ("PORTING"), but it seems like there is more to be done:
> (pkcon:31022): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_string: assertion `string != NULL' failed
> Results:
> Fatal error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Type of message, `(s)', does not match expected type `(t)'

Ahh, you need to make install before trying to run.

> Thus my question: is it better to drop it, then to just let it rot ?

Not a question for me. :)

> In order for PackageKit to work, it needs to have a distribution
> that allows the needed packages, configuration and repositories.
> It doesn't matter if the backend "works", if there is no "support".
> So might as well move the other backends to separate installations...

Well, will smart work on any other distro to Fedora17?

Richard.