Yeah you're correct it looks for gcab executable, not library. Configure was borking for me without the executable in the path, I'm not sure why that wasn't happening for you.
Yeah, what I'm really looking for is getting into firmware support in gnome software. It's probably dependent on fwupd getting in Debian still though which danjared was working on. On 07/19/2015 11:03 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2015-07-15 22:42 GMT+02:00 <mario_limoncie...@dell.com>: >> When you do bring in this patch, also can you please build depend on >> libgcab-dev to enable the cab support this fixes? I noticed that it wasn't >> on previously. > There is no cab support in the libappstream-glib library, at least the > configure.ac script doesn't tell anything like that... The builder > parts apparently depend on the gcab *executable* for some stuff, but > we don't ship the builder in Debian currently, as Debian doesn't use > the AppStream XML spec, but the YAML implementation instead. Also, the > builder doesn't properly support Debian and is mostly used by Fedora > (and Arch recently). > So, depending on libgcap seems to be pointless here, especially since > the patch you mentioned only touched libappstream-glib in a non-gcab > dependent way anyway. > > What I can do soon, however, is enabling firmware support in > GNOME-Software, which is probably what you are missing at time. > > Cheers, > Matthias -- *Mario Limonciello* *Dell*| Client Software Group *office*+1 512 723 0582
