Setting "version" field in own repository

[Alexander Larsson]

You have to ship an appdata file with the app including the version,
and then run "flatpak build-update-repo " on the repo, which will
generate a branch with the combined appdatas for all apps in the repo.
However, flat-manager should do that for you.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 10:19 AM Wojciech Fred <wojciech.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to set up (for my own needs) a flatpack repository. Thanks to the project documentation and description of the flat-manager, I was able to get everything up and running. I am able to build a package, commit and publish it. After adding my own repository as a remote repository on the client machine and executing the command:
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> $ flatpack remote-ls | grep my-repo
>
> I get the result (I use the sample application from the description on Alexander Larsson blog):
>
> App com.example.App stable x86_64 my-repo app/com.example.App/x86_64/stable 8dd62fc37b01 org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/21.08 1,0 kB 202 bytes
>
> but when I asking for app in flathub:
>
> $ flatpak remote-ls -d | grep digikam
> digiKam Photo management org.kde.digikam 7.1.0 stable x86_64 flathub app/org.kde.digikam/x86_64/stable 3c6b22716fd8 org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 350,7 MB 143,8 MB
>
> The difference is in displaying the: version field. The package I have built does not have the "version" field. This is my question: at what point the building/commiting/publishing process im able to add this field. I'm new to ostree (I understand the analogies with the git repository and commit storing).
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> I tried:
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> * adding metadata field "version" with command: ostree summary --repo=repo -u -m version = "'0.0.1'" before pushing to remote repository
> * adding information about the release in the appdata.xml file
> * searched the file https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.digikam/blob/master/org.kde.digikam.json for any clues
>
> Nothing works.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> ---
> Wojciech F
> .
>


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