No dynamic groups in PackageKit

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 23 17:37:37 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 19:13 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Livna/RPM Fusion in the past tried to put its packages into the same 
> groups as Fedora did.

 No, groups are defined by their groupid, Livna always created searate
groups (they had a different ID) ... they just named them the same. This
caused problems on older yum's because on groupinstall yum would pick a
single match so the other group was basically unavailable.
 Newer yum's find all groups that match, so there's no problem on
current Fedora 9 or newer.

 Of course to be fair reinventing the groups concept in PK, poorly and
with no input from anyone else or ability for Livna to group anything,
also solves this problem.

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James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora




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