On Sex, 2016-10-28 at 00:23 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > Many thanks by your reply, yes or creterepo could use appdata > > directly, > > makes sense improve createrepo with appdata, btw I noticie, apper > > (kde > > software manager) on Fedora 24 fails on search groups with: > > "SearchGroups not supported by backend" , what tools we have to > > read > > appdata ? > AppData is the source format (that individual packages ship), the > metadata > software installers can actually work on is called AppStream (and is > periodically generated from the AppData of all packages in the > distribution). > > The KDE software installer using AppStream is called Plasma Discover > (or in > short, just Discover). > > Apper cannot browse groups in current Fedora releases because the > PackageKit-hif backend (still!) does not support the required > feature. The > old PackageKit-yum was able to enumerate comps groups. (Most other > PackageKit backends implement equivalent functionality, based on > whatever > grouping mechanism the respective distribution uses.) That > functionality was > never implemented in PackageKit-hif.
yeah, so the group tag shouldn't be obsolete , we should use it as fallback . > Kevin Kofler > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
