fedora-appstream

AppStream tools for Fedora

fedoraAppstreamBuildPkg.py pkgs/tr-1.0-1.fc20.rpm

• Creates ./appstream
• Creates ./icons
• Creates ./tmp
• Designed to be run after the package has been built on koji
• Explodes the rpm file into ./tmp
• Searches for desktop files
• TODO: searches for appdata files
• Outputs icons/tuxracer.png
• Outputs appstream/tuxracer.xml
• Outputs appstream/tuxracer-icons.tar
• Deletes ./tmp and all contents

fedoraAppstreamCompose.py

• Designed to be run on distro compose/mash
• Joins all the appstream/*.xml files
• Outputs appstream.xml.gz
• TODO: outputs appstream-icons.tar

fedoraAppstreamCache.py f20 "fedora,fedora-updates"

• Creates ./packages
• Only used when making standalone metadata using existing repos
• Searches existing files in packages/
• Downloads any missing rpm files to packages/.rpm
• TODO: needs to also download other things from the srpm
• Deletes any obsolete or removed packages

fedoraAppstreamBuildAll.py

• Only used when making standalone metadata using existing repos
• Deletes ./appstream and all contents
• Runs fedoraAppstream-build.py on all rpm files in packages/*