On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> [...] It's already kind of second-class in Fedora because it's not >> properly integrated into our repodata (like it's supposed to be, and >> how it is in openSUSE, Mageia, and even in COPR). >> >> We should be making AppStream data support first-class, not >> third-class. :( > > This is interesting. Can you point me to more information about > AppStream and COPR? > There's no real documentation on this, as far as I know, but the COPR developers know more about it (they're CC'd to this email). > > I have a COPR with some AppStream metainfo files in it, and I noticed > that suddenly I had this file: > > /var/cache/app-info/xmls/mvo-cockpit-app-freeipa.xml.gz > > I have since deleted it and it doesn't seem to come back. If memory > serves, I think it was referenced from repodata/repomd.xml back then, > but not anymore. > > Anyway, now there is appdata/appstream.xml.gz in the repo: > > https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mvo/cockpit-app-freeipa/fedora-26-x86_64/appdata/ > > Is dnf supposed to download this automatically? Some other program? > Should the consumer (such as GNOME Software and Cockpit) download it > explicitly? > All PackageKit based software managers automatically download the data, as the Dnf PK backend does this: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/blob/master/backends/dnf/pk-backend-dnf.c#L553 DNF currently ignores it, though it can be made to handle it. As an aside, libzypp/Zypper (F26+) does download and handle AppStream data, when available. > Also, addons don't work in COPRs: https://pagure.io/copr/copr/issue/128 > > Also also, what will you do with icons? Do they all have to be > type="remote"? Will you automatically convert type="local" icons to > type="remote" icons? > COPR runs createrepo_c, then appstream-builder, then modifyrepo_c to create the rpm-md repodata, generate the appstream repodata, and append the appstream repodata to the rpm-md repodata. You can see the appstream bundle in the repodata folder: https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mvo/cockpit-app-freeipa/fedora-26-x86_64/repodata/669caf74c17cec488cc84ee5eadf4f4f02c7b34a84fd4664b4148c1422e4186d-appstream.xml.gz And it's referenced in the repomd.xml file: https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mvo/cockpit-app-freeipa/fedora-26-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml Behaviors related for icon type is appstream-builder handling. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
