[SailfishDevel] Missing /usr/bin/sailfish-qml on the phone

[Slava Monich]

Basically, I was trying to say that if Jolla Store client can do it and 
command line pkcon can do it (i.e. automatically install dependencies) 
then Warehouse can do it too. If Warehouse doesn't do it, it's the 
choice made by the creator of the app. I pulled the sources and haven't 
found anything there about the dependencies.

One thing that I learned today: The PackageKit currently used by 
Sailfish OS (version 0.8.something + a few patches)  has D-Bus method 
called GetDepends. However the smart upstream guys have renamed it into 
DependsOn:

https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/e590ed91

(backward compatibility? what's that? never heard of it!) meaning that 
Warehouse should try both methods to make sure that it works with future 
versions of PackageKit. Right now it doesn't seem to do anything.

Cheers,

-Slava


On 20/10/17 02:54, Osmo Salomaa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017, at 00:41, Slava Monich wrote:
>> ... but you can install an rpm by somehow transferring it to the phone
>> (e.g. by downloading it with the browser) and then tapping it in
>> Settings -> Transfers. You would have to allow installing untrusted
>> software first on the Settings -> Untrusted software page.
>>
>> I don't think this has anything to do with "pkcon refresh".
> I constantly keep running into reports from users where the dependencies
> cannot be found and the solution always is "pkcon refresh". As far as I
> know that happens both with OpenRepos + Warehouse and the manual way you
> describe. Please try to do something about this, it's annoying to tell
> users they need developer mode and command line just to install an RPM.
>
> https://together.jolla.com/question/132628
> https://github.com/otsaloma/poor-maps/issues/57
>