Bug 1983315

Summary:	DNF packageKit plugin does not support DependsOn operation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
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Version:	39	CC:	gnome-sig, jonathan, ngompa13, rdieter, rhughes, smparrish
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Description Nate Graham 2021-07-17 15:10:02 UTC

Description of problem:
Plasma Discover is unable to show package dependencies because it reports that the DNF packageKit plugin does not support the DependsOn operation.



How reproducible:
100%



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open KDE Discover in a terminal (`plasma-discover`)
2. Navigate to an app provided by the Fedora repos



Actual results:
The button in the UI to display the app's dependencies is not visible, and there is an error in the console output:

Transaction error:  "DependsOn not supported by backend" PackageKit::Transaction(0x47a91e0)



Expected results:
Discover is able to show the app's dependencies because the DNF PackageKit plugin supports the DependsOn operation



Additional info:
This works in openSUSE Tumbleweed with the Zypper PackageKit plugin, so I know that the feature is not simply broken in Discover.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2021-07-17 20:19:31 UTC

Yeah, this is why we haven't updated to discover 5.22 yet, need this feature in place first.  Thanks for documenting it

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-07-17 22:06:52 UTC

FWIW there shouldn't be any great harm in shipping Discover 5.22 even without this feature in the PK plugin. It just means that the package dependencies feature will be missing--but the UI degrades gracefully and simply doesn't show the button to invoke it.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2021-07-17 23:26:30 UTC

Ok, I'll test again, last we'd tried, discover crashed.

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2021-07-19 22:35:45 UTC

I'm building it from source daily and I don't see any crashes, but my build process may be different from the way it's done in the packaging. I'm just using kdesrc-build.

Comment 5 Neal Gompa 2021-12-06 18:52:08 UTC

Implementation is in progress: https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/495

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2022-05-12 16:54:13 UTC

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Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-05-12 18:19:00 UTC

Still an issue in 36.

Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2023-04-25 18:22:37 UTC

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Comment 9 Fedora Release Engineering 2023-08-16 07:04:48 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 39 development cycle.
Changing version to 39.