On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Matthias Klumpp <matth...@nlinux.org> wrote: > * familiarize with PackageKit workflow, especially with the > python-packagekit bindings; > Have you considered to use PackageKit's GIR data with Python, instead of > using the original Python bindings? > AFAIK they are broken at time, and the way to go is GIR. I am developing > an application using PK GIR at time and there really are some problems with > it, but in the long run it might be a better option. (I already fixed most > of the GIR issues in PK 0.6.14) > Just my 2 cents, I'm no Python dev ;-)
Well, I didn't know there are gi data for pk. It's a great suggestion, I will use them. I've tried googling for some documentation, but I only found your bug report about temporarely disabling them. Can you please give some more hints, like how can I setup an environment with PackageKit GI? >> A particular issue I can start clarifying is the app-data.xml download >> policy, mentioned in a previous thread[2] by Enrico Zini. Any hints >> for me? > Note: @all on this list, please correct me if I'm telling something wrong > here, as I haven't attended the AppStream meeting... > AFAIK the app-data XML stuff is available in one package (maybe together > with the icons?) and gets downloaded via the package manager. This is > already done for the USC, at Debian we already have a package like this: > http://packages.debian.org/sid/app-install-data (but this is not working > with the XML files, it ships .desktop files at time) > Then, after the package is installed, apt-xapian-index is executed to > create a Xapian index of the XML files, which is searched in the USC. > Hope this solves your question. (Or I got you wrong...) AFAIK, app-install-data is the "old" thing, Debian and Ubuntu specific. The "new thing" should be distro agnostic (I might be wrong). See this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488968 for Fedora app-install-data status. Cheers, Alex _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
