On Qui, 2016-10-27 at 14:07 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On jueves, 27 de octubre de 2016 5:39:20 PM CDT Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Qui, 2016-10-27 at 09:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 17:24 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, I'd like understand how groups of package are now detect > > > > , > > > > specially in 3rd repo packages which can't use comps.xml. > > > Sure they can. Third party repos can provide comps, and all > > > Fedora > > > packaging tools will use it. RPMFusion, for instance, includes > > > comps > > > data. > > Where ? but my main question is how apper or gnome-software knows > > the > > categories of the packages ? > There is a mechanism to refernece the appdata in repomd.xml what is > needed is > to close a gap and make it possible to put the appdata into rpm > headers so > that createrepo can extract the data and make the metadata on the > fly. afaik > the gnome-software folks and rpm folks were going to work on a > solution a > year or two back and it has not materialised. having to extract files > and data > from inside rpm payloads is expensive, clunky and cumbersome. 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 ? Thanks > Dennis > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
