On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 19:46 +0100, Pavol Rusnak wrote: > Hi all! > > I wrote appdata-generate[1] script as a proof-of-concept code. It takes > all *.desktop files in the current directory and creates appdata.xml > from them. It's written in python, so it should be easy to incorporate > into createrepo later (and it's not that complex, so porting it to > language, in which deb counterpart of createrepo is written in, should > not be hard as well). Comments/patches welcome as usual! :-) > > [1] http://gitorious.org/appstream/resources/trees/master/generator > > PS: You can validate the resulting XML with the following command: > > $ xmllint --schema appdata.xsd appdata.xml
so to make it work in createrepo we'll need: 1. to read the desktop files out of the rpms themselves - that code exists 2. we'll need to have it work properly with --update so we're not constantly doing the same thing over and over again on each repo recreation. - does the code exist to read and break up the xml into per-desktop-file chunks? How we do it in the rest of createrepo is we read the existing xml and prune out those which have been deleted/modified and add those which have been added/changed. If that code exists already that makes life quicker to get it into createrepo. -sv _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
