On 06/01/2016 05:24 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: > I'm looking into a bug filed against one of my applications (BZ: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330096). The complaint is > that the gnome-software application picks up the xiphos-common package > when the user tries to install from there, rather than picking up the > actual GUI packages (which are available as xiphos-gtk2 and > xiphos-gtk3). > > I need some advice on the proper way to handle this. First, a little > explanation of the three packages. > > Upstream Xiphos includes some support for building against GTK3 but > has no intention of moving to that for its primary support on its > current roadmap. Thus, there are occasionally bugs against the GTK3 > build that are left as low-priority tasks - sometimes these will > render the GTK3 build completely unusable. Thus, upstream recommends > building only against GTK2. > > To satisfy both camps, and to allow ease of bug reporting (i.e. > identifying if the bug is a regression in GTK3 interfaces vs a bug in > Xiphos) and for various other reasons, both xiphos-gtk{2,3} were made > available. There are a small number of static or data files which can > be shared between the two builds - translations, etc. These are > packaged as xiphos-common, which is a dep of both the binary packages. > > One of those files that is shared between the two is the > %{_datadir}/appdata/xiphos.appdata.xml, which appears to be what > triggers gnome-software to consider a particular package the GUI > app-containing package that ought to be installed. Don't share that, it's meant to be unique per app, and you have two separate apps here. Instead, create two .appdata files, one for each .desktop file, and put both the .desktop and .appdata files in the respective xiphos-gtk2 and xiphos-gtk3 subpackages. Something like: xiphos-gtk2.rpm: /usr/bin/xiphos-gtk2 /usr/share/appdata/xiphos-gtk2.appdata.xml /usr/share/applications/xiphos-gtk2.desktop xiphos-gtk3.rpm: /usr/bin/xiphos-gtk3 /usr/share/appdata/xiphos-gtk3.appdata.xml /usr/share/applications/xiphos-gtk3.desktop -- Hope this helps, Kalev -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
