https://github.com/elementary/appstream-data
https://github.com/elementary/appstream-data
appstream
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/elementary/appstream-data
- Owner: elementary
- Created: 2018-06-25T20:32:52.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: noble
- Last Pushed: 2025-06-25T00:36:04.000Z (8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-25T01:38:27.231Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: appstream
- Language: Shell
- Size: 81.1 MB
- Stars: 9
- Watchers: 18
- Forks: 7
- Open Issues: 4
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- Readme: README.md
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# AppStream data for Pantheon
Launchpad PPAs do not support AppStream data in the sense that it is not globbed together for each package in a PPA and published to the repository in the way that it would be downloaded with an `apt update`.
To work around this and provide AppStream data for elementary packages available from the `stable` PPA, the `build.sh` script in this repository downloads a local mirror of the PPA and runs `appstream-generator` on it to generate the necessary metadata tarball. This is then packaged up as a `.deb` package and uploaded to the same PPA. When installed, it puts the metadata in a location where AppStream would expect to find it.
Building this metadata properly requires the `elementary-icon-theme` package to be installed so that the relevant icons can be extracted. So in a CI environment, an elementary Docker container is used. To build the metadata locally, you can use the following command:
`docker run -i -v ${PWD}:/repo elementary/docker:stable /bin/bash -s bionic stable < build.sh`