How to get my app visible in gnome-software[SOLVED]

[jeandet alexis]

Hi Richard,

I've looked more in detail about appstream stuff, I've found your tools
appstream-glib and builder. It seems easy to use if I use my own repo
but do you have any idea how to trigger it on copr(Any hack?)?

Best regards,
Alexis.
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 11:49 +0200, jeandet alexis wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 10:33 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On 28 June 2014 23:14, jeandet alexis <alexis.jeandet at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > > Thanks for the documentation, I've added the .appdata.xml file. I'm
> > > still not able to see my app in gnome-software
> > 
> > GNOME software in 3.10 and 3.12 uses the AppStream metadata that is
> > generated from the fedora repos. You need to get your application into
> > Fedora before it will be visible in the software center. GNOME
> > Software has no way of searching all the random repos on the Internet,
> > and can only load the metadata that has been prepared ahead of time.
> > 
> > If you're using GNOME 3.14, gnome-software will consider your local
> > AppData file and show the correct data, but obviously this will not
> > work until the application is installed manually.
> > 
> > Richard.
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Thanks for your answer, it was quite weird to me, looking the data
> provided by copr repo, that it would work. In my understanding the only
> way for gnome-software to get appdata information would be to get the
> rpm which wouldn't be optimized. 
> So from your answer it's clear, is there any plan for copr to generate
> this data in the futur? If I setup my own repository, would I be able to
> generate this data? My software is quite far from being releasable on
> fedora repos that's why I'm asking.
> 
> Best regards,
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Alexis Jeandet,
Plasma Physics Laboratory,
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