Review Request 128533: Create a test that validates projects' appstream information

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

> On July 27, 2016, 2:34 a.m., Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > kde-modules/test_appstream.cmake, line 1
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128533/diff/1/?file=472470#file472470line1>
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> >     I am not 100% sure on how this works, but would it be possible to validate the .desktop file and AppStream XML together?
> >     For that, we would need an installed copy of the metadata and .desktop files in some directory `$DESTDIR` and then could fire `appstreamcli validate-tree $DESTDIR` at it.
> >     That command will validate all metainfo files together with the .desktop files and complain on error.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     What should the `appstreamcli validate` call look like?
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> Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>     The `validate` call (not the `validate-tree` call!) takes a list of AppStream metadata files as parameters.
>     E.g. `appstreamcli validate org.example.Test1.metainfo.xml org.example.Test2.appdata.xml`

I don't think we want to call validate-tree then. Maybe it would make sense to be able to pass the desktop files there as well?


- Aleix


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On July 27, 2016, 2:25 a.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated July 27, 2016, 2:25 a.m.)
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> Review request for Extra Cmake Modules, Matthias Klumpp and Scarlett Clark.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> At the moment, we're validating it in build.kde.org, but I feel it will be easier for developers to test if we do so locally.
> This patch does it by seeing which `*.appdata.xml` files are being installed and validating them. This way we can keep it generic for all KDE projects.
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> Diffs
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>   kde-modules/KDECMakeSettings.cmake dd37e7f 
>   kde-modules/test_appstream.cmake PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128533/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested on some projects, locally.
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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