Adding a metainfo file to a package

[Matti Pulkkinen]

Hello!

I recently reported a bug [1] against RStudio because it wasn't showing
up in Gnome Software. The problem seems to have been that the package
did not ship a metainfo file. I tried making a metainfo file for this
package and attached it to the bug report, and it has since been added
to the package. However, RStudio still does not show up in Gnome
Software. Does something else still need to be done, or is the file I
created just bad?

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928992


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Terveisin / Regards,
Matti Pulkkinen

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 22:28, Matti Pulkkinen <mkjpul(a)utu.fi&gt; wrote:
>  Hello!
>
>  I recently reported a bug [1] against RStudio because it wasn't showing
>  up in Gnome Software. The problem seems to have been that the package
>  did not ship a metainfo file. I tried making a metainfo file for this
>  package and attached it to the bug report, and it has since been added
>  to the package. However, RStudio still does not show up in Gnome
>  Software. Does something else still need to be done, or is the file I
>  created just bad?
>
>  [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928992 
For reference, here's the file [1], which validates correctly:

$ rpm -ql rstudio-desktop | grep metainfo
/usr/share/metainfo/rstudio.metainfo.xml

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rstudio/blob/rawhide/f/rstudio.metainf...

cc'ing rhughes.


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Iñaki Úcar

[Ian McInerney]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:00 PM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 22:28, Matti Pulkkinen <mkjpul(a)utu.fi&gt;
> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello!
>  >
>  > I recently reported a bug [1] against RStudio because it wasn't showing
>  > up in Gnome Software. The problem seems to have been that the package
>  > did not ship a metainfo file. I tried making a metainfo file for this
>  > package and attached it to the bug report, and it has since been added
>  > to the package. However, RStudio still does not show up in Gnome
>  > Software. Does something else still need to be done, or is the file I
>  > created just bad?
>  >
>  > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928992
>
>  For reference, here's the file [1], which validates correctly:
>
>  $ rpm -ql rstudio-desktop | grep metainfo
>  /usr/share/metainfo/rstudio.metainfo.xml
>
>  [1]
>  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rstudio/blob/rawhide/f/rstudio.metainf...
>
>  cc'ing rhughes.
>
>
>  --
>  Iñaki Úcar
>  
Gnome Software ingests a gzipped XML file that is built and shipped inside
the appstream-data package. For new applications to appear in Gnome
Software, that package needs to be rebuilt and the appstream it ingests
needs to be rebuilt as well. Currently, rhughes is the person who knows/has
access to that. The F34 appstream will be built sometime before release (I
think there has customarily been a freeze exception for the appstream-data
package in past cycles), but I would suggest opening a bug against the
appstream-data component in bugzilla asking for a rebuild for all affected
releases.

I'm not sure what exactly the rebuild process is like for it, but it would
also be nice if it could be moved to some automated system in the Fedora
infrastructure, so it can be more easily done (I think the package even
claims it is rebuilt weekly - which unfortunately isn't the case currently,
since I think it is only rebuilt when requested).

-Ian

[Otto Urpelainen]

Matti Pulkkinen kirjoitti 26.2.2021 klo 23.27:
>  Hello!
>  
>  I recently reported a bug [1] against RStudio because it wasn't showing
>  up in Gnome Software. The problem seems to have been that the package
>  did not ship a metainfo file. I tried making a metainfo file for this
>  package and attached it to the bug report, and it has since been added
>  to the package. However, RStudio still does not show up in Gnome
>  Software. Does something else still need to be done, or is the file I
>  created just bad?
>  
>  [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928992 
I think the original question has already been answered in another
thread, so just a reminder: Please try to submit the AppStream metainfo
upstream, too. It would be much better to maintain it there instead of
Fedora.