Re: Packaging guidelines - validation of AppStream metadata files

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Il 27/09/23 13:24, Richard Hughes ha scritto:
> On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 03:16, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So a stopgap solution was implemented: appstream-data. Richard Hughes
>> maintains a local mirror of the full Fedora repositories and generates
>> the appstream data from that using scripts[1] and extra data[2] to
>> produce the appstream-data package[3].
> That's a really good writeup, thanks. Note, I'm not the only person
> who can generate metadata, and I'd *love* someone to take over the
> task if they've got more time than me. We used to build the new
> metadata weekly, but it's slipped to monthly, if that frequently.
>
> The storage requirement of a "full mirror" is ~8G for centos and ~720G
> for Fedora -- and although NVMe is faster, I use an external HDD. You
> can also generate the metadata on laptop-class hardware -- it takes
> about an hour per release or an order of magnitude faster with fast
> NMVe and server class hardware. I've not tried to use
> appstream-compose yet, but it might work.
>
> Ideally this is something that could be picked up by release
> engineering, but I've fought that battle and lost each time. C'est la
> vie.
>
> Richard.

Can't this script be moved to run in Openshift as cron-based? Something 
like the Package Review Status app, although the storage requirements 
are totally different (but, maybe, there's a way to avoid cloning the 
mirror "locally" in Openshift and use a network mounted directory?).

Mattia

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