Re: appdata handling

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Hughes
On 14 April 2014 21:46, Richard Hughes hughsi...@gmail.com wrote: You are an early adopter; somewhat simpler now :) Okay, since this morning: createrepo_as --basename=test path/to/package.rpm sudo appstream-util install test.xml.gz test-icons.tar.gz I'll get a new appstream-glib release out at

Re: appdata handling

2014-04-14 Thread Richard Hughes
On 13 April 2014 13:21, Markus Mayer lotharl...@gmx.de wrote: What I'm interested in is: - Directory, Name, ownership and permissions for appdata.xml files Just the default permissions and groups are required, no special handling. - %post/%postun scriptlets (if needed) Nope, none. - If

Re: appdata handling

2014-04-14 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:44:29AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 13 April 2014 13:21, Markus Mayer lotharl...@gmx.de wrote: As a side note: build.log contains the following error: error: Couldn't exec /usr/lib/rpm/appdata.prov: No such file or directory Doesn't exist on my system either,

Re: appdata handling

2014-04-14 Thread Panu Matilainen
On 04/14/2014 10:51 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:44:29AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On 13 April 2014 13:21, Markus Mayer lotharl...@gmx.de wrote: As a side note: build.log contains the following error: error: Couldn't exec /usr/lib/rpm/appdata.prov: No such file

Re: appdata handling

2014-04-14 Thread Bill Nottingham
Richard Hughes (hughsi...@gmail.com) said: - How long does it take that the new appdata is propagated to gnome-software I do new builds nearly every day, but the builds that are shipped in gnome-software and pushed to users is usually updated every month or so. A FAQ related to this

Re: appdata handling

2014-04-14 Thread Richard Hughes
On 14 April 2014 21:10, Bill Nottingham nott...@splat.cc wrote: How do I locally check changes to my appdata inside gnome-software, as opposed to just appdata-validate? Now it's a case of cloning and building https://github.com/hughsie/createrepo_as and then doing ./createrepo_as

appdata handling

2014-04-13 Thread Markus Mayer
A new version of a package I maintain added an appdata.xml. As I haven't handled such files before, I looked up the internet for some information. The only helpful hint I found, was a commit adding appdata support to the qt-creator package in fedora git. [1] As more packages will add appdata

Re: appdata handling

2014-04-13 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:21:03PM +0200, Markus Mayer wrote: A new version of a package I maintain added an appdata.xml. As I haven't handled such files before, I looked up the internet for some information. The only helpful hint I found, was a commit adding appdata support to the qt-creator