media is always put in media directory

[iainlane]

I want to override the MediaBaseUrl to something else so that I can have appstream-dep11's media under /media. The problem is that asgen always puts the media in a media directory on the filesystem, so you can't just expose the export directory, you need to transform it to match the MediaBaseUrl by renaming.

Maybe a MediaDirectory configuration option that is used for the output directory and also appended to the MediaBaseUrl in the output, if it is present or something?

I think in reality I'll just keep using media because ImmutableSuites means there's not a conflict between media/main (as-dep11) and media/suite/main (asgen), so this isn't that urgent for me.

[ximion]

I always wanted to make this a bit more configurable, but when going all the way we would have
HtmlBaseDir, MediaBaseDir, HintsBaseDir, and ExportDir or CacheDir to put temporary files under... So so far when this came up I told people to symlink things, but maybe we should resolve this in a more configurable way at some point.

Reusing media for both generators is fine, there should be no conflicts (and maybe we can update the Xenial data even, I had a few ideas based on your suggestion, but couldn't develop anything further because of -ENOTIME)

[iainlane]

Yeah, it's lucky that there are no conflicts - it makes the filesystem layout kind of ugly but I don't think I care. :-)

[ximion]

You care, you filed a bug ^^ - but you probably don't care enough to invest a lot of time into it.

Why I want this to be solved at some point maybe, is to make asgen easier to embed in other tools, so you e.g. can pass the JSON dynamic parameter to the tool instead of creating lots of static workspaces for each repo.