Heads-up about AppStream 1.0 no longer honoring legacy metadata locations

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Tue Oct 24 14:21:58 BST 2023


Am Di., 24. Okt. 2023 um 15:17 Uhr schrieb Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com>:
> [...]
> No, downloaded stuff is in /var/cache/app-info, but Fedora packages
> its AppStream repodata currently (because of reasons[1]), and all
> *that* goes into /usr/share.
>
> [1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GZ7QN3QLLGGUXVFEDOHHWURXGX767E6D/

Ah! That is perfectly fine and of course still a supported scheme,
it's even documented like this in the spec :-) (just put the XML data
into `/usr/share/swcatalog/xml` :-)

Cheers,
    Matthias

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