Re: storing appdata in repos

[colin <cgwalters gmail com>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> Therefore, I've changed the approach to instead check both the xml and
> the icons into a branch with a fixed name. The code for that is here:
>
> https://github.com/matthiasclasen/xdg-app/commits/wip/appstream
>
> With this approach, gnome-software can simply pull this ref and get
> all it needs.

It sounds reasonable to me.

> And maybe more importantly, incremental updates to this
> data can take advantage of any delta download improvements ostree
> comes up with, as opposed to the Fedora approach, where we re-download
> everything every time a single icon changes.

The ostree deltas (rollsums/bsdiff) should do fine on XML, assuming it's
sorted/canonicalized and uncompressed.

> Screenshots are not included in this, and we would continue to treat
> them as separately downloaded items.

Right.