Bug 59189

Summary:	backend-alpm compilation error
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	hamishmaku
Component:	General	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	NEEDINFO ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description hamishmaku 2013-01-10 02:19:03 UTC

link to output:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=SyAcbsHF

error on compile with libalpm.

Pacman v4.0.3 - libalpm v7.0.3

attempting to install 0.8.6.

Comment 1 Cédric Bellegarde 2013-09-03 18:17:06 UTC

Can confirm this bug, packagekit is broken on ArchLinux.

So apper 0.8 isn't available.

Comment 2 Сковорода Никита 2014-04-22 16:45:27 UTC

Still does not compile.

It uses PkBackendThreadFunc which was removed in commit a98a025 (Jun 28 2012):
> Backends will have to be ported to the new API, although do not have to support doing transactions without a lock.

This porting wasn't done for the alpm backend.

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2014-04-22 17:06:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> This porting wasn't done for the alpm backend.

alpm isn't well maintained in PackageKit

Comment 4 Andrea Scarpino 2016-04-26 13:25:40 UTC

Since Arch Linux builds PackageKit without any patch[1], I suppose this is fixed?

[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/packagekit

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