AppData - how to properly handle them

[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 03:03 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> How does GNOME Software knows about appdata files in non installed
> packages?

> 
> I mean - is it all stored
> in /usr/share/app-info/xmls/fedora-20.xml.gz?
> 
> Or is it in the repository somewhere?

Currently Richard generates this appdata from *all* fedora packages (and
sundry files in the github repo[1]) and ships the metadata files in the
gnome-software related packages.

In the future, this will hopefully be integrated with koji etc. and be
done automatically. I don't know the status of this yet.


> When I upgrade my package to add/modify appdata, should I do anything
> else?

No. You don't need to do anything. Whenever Richard re-runs his compose,
the updates will be pulled in.

> 
> Will other repos than the official provide appdata as well? If no, is
> it 
> possible to do it somehow? E.g. for rpmfusion or repos in Copr?

They can. Please read:
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2013/10/16/how-to-generate-appstream-metadata-for-fedora/


[1] https://github.com/hughsie/fedora-appstream
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Thanks,
Warm regards,
Ankur (FranciscoD)

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