option to download bundles from flathub

[Philip Withnall]

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 16:01 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 09:26 -0300, Fabio Rafael Rosa wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >  From what I could figure out (and correct me if Im wrong), the
> > prefered 
> > way to distribute flatpaks, is to give the user a flatpakref file,
> > that 
> > will download and install the app and required runtimes when we do 
> > flatpak install.
> > But, I never see a way to download the whole bundle (except for 
> > libreoffice, for example).
> > Will flathub have an option for that. For example, I search for an
> > app 
> > at flathub website, and can download the whole bundle , so I can
> > install 
> > it offline ?
> > I do understand that , doing the whole thing online makes a lot of 
> > sense, but, offline install is a scenario that, despite being
> > supported 
> > by flatpak, seems deeply ignored (no flatpak app from flatpak.org
> > have a 
> > option to download the bundle instead of the flatpakref). Offline 
> > machines, o bad connections, are still a reality in several
> > places, 
> > unfortunatelly.
> 
> We're not generating bundle files, because in the long run I don't
> think they are very important. However, you should be able to
> generate
> your own from the flathub repo using "flatpak build-bundle" after
> having downloaded it. You could easily create a script that does it.
> 
> Also, in master there is work on a peer-2-peer mode that lets you
> download from locally available repos too, via avahi or from a usb
> stick. This is work that endless is sponsoring for supporting flatpak
> updates when the network is slow/flaky/expensive.

Indeed. Fabio, does peer-to-peer support in flatpak handle your use
case? What is your use case for offline support?

Philip
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