AppStream is an effort to provide additional metadata and unique IDs for all software available in a Linux system. This repository contains the server-side of the AppStream infrastructure, a tool to generate metadata from distribution packages. You can find out more about AppStream distro metadata at Freedesktop.
The AppStream generator is currently primarily used by Debian, but is written in a distribution agnostic way. Backends only need to implement two interfaces to to be ready.
If you are looking for the AppStream client-tools, the AppStream repository is where you want to go.
- gdc / ldc
- dub 1
- glib2 (>= 2.46)
- AppStream 2
- libarchive 3
- LMDB 4
- Cairo
- GdkPixbuf 2.0
- RSvg 2.0
- Bower (optional) 5
On Debian and derivatives of it, all build requirements can be installed using the following command:
sudo apt install dub libappstream-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libarchive-dev \
librsvg2-dev liblmdb-dev libglib2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-devEnsure you have initialized the Git submodules. Run make update-submodule to run a fake-target which initializes and updates the submodule.
Then run dub build or make to build the software - if all dependencies are set up correctly, the binary will be built and stored as build/appstream-generator,
and can be used directly from there.
If you want to use the HTML reports, you need to install Bower, then run make js to download the JavaScript bits and store them in the right directory.
If you want, you can also install the generator system-wide using make install. In summary:
$ make update-submodule
$ dub build --parallel
$ make js
$ sudo make installTake a look at the docs/ directory in the source tree for information on how to use the generator. Right now, only the YAML output format is tested properly.
Pull-requests and patches are very welcome! If you are new to D, it is highly recommended to take a few minutes to look at the D tour to get a feeling of what the language can do: http://tour.dlang.org/