Flatpak-external-data-checker Alternatives

flatpak-external-data-checker reviews and mentions

• Flathub – The Linux App Store
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023

  > Maybe. The CI rules should be made public in that case, though, surely? Maybe they are?

  Agreed, but thankfully they are. The PRs link to <https://github.com/flathub/flatpak-external-data-checker>. That said, it'd be clearer if the flathubbot 'user' profile also linked to that URL.

  > The enormous amount of value the distros bring [...] is audit of packages (and packaging).

  Yes, auditing against supply chain attacks is good! But there's also a risk in running outdated software. I don't have easy answers. But if automation leaves more time for the hard part, great.

• Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak
  1 project | /r/linux | 10 Jun 2023

  Flathub provides an excellent tool to keep your dependencies up to date, so it's just a matter of adding it to the manifests. Besides, who says 'dependencies not being updated enough' is a valid metric to determine the quality of a package? LOL.

• How do I easily create a Flatpak from 2 sources?
  6 projects | /r/flatpak | 12 Mar 2023
• GE-Proton7-48
  3 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 30 Jan 2023

  According to Github issue/PR #126 new builds are failing because of a bug in flatpak-external-data-checker or some incompatibility between the two projects at least.

• Do snap packages have any real advantages for the end user over native packages?
  1 project | /r/linux | 4 Dec 2022

  I'm surprised the documentation says that since Flathub itself runs its CLI scripts via Flatpak: https://github.com/flathub/flatpak-external-data-checker

• How do I actually make a flatpak.
  7 projects | /r/flatpak | 20 Oct 2022

  Another thing you could add would be to tag your releases on GitHub, add a tag field next to the commit one, and add an x-checker-data section to the manifest so the Flathub bot will automatically open PRs to update the Flatpak release when you update your repository.

• Automate dependency update of flatpak
  1 project | /r/flatpak | 11 Sep 2022

  See f-e-d-c, and if you're not planing to submit to Flathub, then look at the GitHub workflow example there. Be aware that auto-merging is not acceptable for anything other than extra-data sources.

• The culmination of several months of work by dozens of people, Flatpak 1.14.0 is now out!
  8 projects | /r/linux | 22 Aug 2022
• Zoom can now (as of version 5.11.0) share screen on Wayland
  5 projects | /r/linux | 21 Jun 2022

  Unfortunately the maintainership of the Zoom Flatpak on Flathub has been a bit slow, but you can still install it since the Flathub bot do automatic builds whenever there's an update, thanks to the provided flatpak-external-data-checker service.

• Fedora Silverblue and the future of app management
  1 project | /r/openSUSE | 1 Jun 2022

  There is https://github.com/flathub/flatpak-external-data-checker which automatizes the update pull requests including dependencies. Flatpak has other downsides, but security or not getting the latest and greatest is not one of them.

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