Some flathub thoughts

[Alexander Larsson]

On ons, 2016-09-21 at 10:07 +0200, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 06:50 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > flatpak-builder needs to download all the sources, but if we
> > downloaded that source before we should reuse that. Also, if we do
> > download something new we should save that for the future (both to
> > avoid multiple downloads and for GPL reasons). This is not so hard
> > for tarballs, but its somewhat more complicated for git/bzr
> > mirroring.
> > Partly because we do some complex git submodule handling, but also
> > because git mirrors change over time, so its we to store need extra
> > information to know what exact commit a build used. Maybe we need
> > some kind of support for this in flatpak-builder.
> This would be very useful, regardless of flathub.
> 
> I've had to debug a build of org.gnome.Games in the past, and the
> only
> way I could figure out what git commits were used to build it was to
> look at the build logs, which was very time consuming.
> 
> Having this information right in the built flatpak app would make
> this
> much, much easier.

You can look at /app/manifest.json. It should list the exact git
commits that were used to build the app.

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