Fix PackageKit URPM back-end and Enable AppStream/SC

[mustafa]

Hi,
URPMI back-end for PackageKit is not functional, this makes Apper and other operations (such as automatic installation of missing codecs) useless, please fix the back-end (or preferably re-write it from scratch using new features such as parallel transactions (and others) mentioned here):
http://blog.tenstral.net/2012/08/packag ... lized.html

Also it would be great to ship Software Center (Like Ubuntu Software Center) based on AppStream project:
http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream
http://blog.tenstral.net/2012/08/appstr ... apper.html
http://blog.tenstral.net/2012/08/appstr ... howto.html

[leuhmanu]

A fix for packagekit is planned: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7106
for the soft of appstream I don't know, seems nobody have take it for now.

[mustafa]

The bug reposrt says "fix pushed upstream". It is a fix for only two problems, we need much more, you can see the feature matrix here:
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html

As for AppStream I think it is very important to implement it in Mageia 3, waiting for Mageia 4 in 2014 without Software Center (comparable to what is found in Ubuntu and Mint) will leave us behind them, we neeeeeeeeeeeed Software Center.

Fore the back-end we have yum and zypper in the repos, may be they are more feature complete?

[doktor5000]

Work on Appstream is in progress, but needs more ressources (manpower) so feel free to contribute:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Appstream

[mustafa]

Work on Appstream is in progress, but needs more ressources (manpower) so feel free to contribute:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Appstream

Thanks for the link, doktor, but nothing is being done (most start with improving the fixing PackageKit URPM back-end), which is why I posted this in the first place.

[doktor5000]

Well, no developer will probably read this, so this will not improve anything. Help contributing, send patches and so on, that is the way to go.
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[mustafa]

Not everybody can submit patches, some of us can't, and contributing includes ideas in the forums and bug reporting (we do both), maybe I will try to fix it someday.

Well, no developer will probably read this, so this will not improve anything. Help contributing, send patches and so on, that is the way to go.
http://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Were should I put it so developers read it?

[leuhmanu]

Open a bug and attach your patch.

[mustafa]

Open a bug and attach your patch.

I don't have a patch.

[doktor5000]

Well, then at least you could comment on the existing bug about PackageKit, and maybe also vote for it and create a new one for Appstream.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly