Inform what is available in each runtime

[prcastro]

I'm trying to make a flatpak version of OpenShot, and I couldn't find an easy way to inspect what libraries are available in org.kde.Platform or org.kde.Sdk. I would be nice if this kind of information were available in Flathub's webpage or in the Wiki somehow.

[TingPing]

More discover-ability would always be nice but in the short term some useful information:

Actual manifests for everything:

• https://github.com/KDE/flatpak-kde-runtime/blob/master/org.kde.Sdk.json
• https://github.com/flatpak/freedesktop-sdk-images/blob/1.6/org.freedesktop.Sdk.json.in

List of pkg-config files: flatpak run --command=pkg-config org.kde.Sdk//5.9 --list-all

Script that could be modified to turn the manifest into a table: https://gist.github.com/TingPing/65509ee3608d82e17dd09ef8c63a3ef1

[mjog]

Manifests are shipped with the packages as well, so you can see what your installed runtimes have by checking e.g. for gnome: /var/lib/flatpak/runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.26/active/files/manifest.json

[nbenitez]

@TingPing Please could provide links to the gnome runtimes too? I could not find it github.com/flatpak .. I want to check what runtime includes GTK+2 as I intend to create a flatpak for an old gtk+2 application (testing Flatpak as a useful way to revive abandomware!! :-) )

Also would you accept a PR about this feature?

[TingPing]

@TingPing Please could provide links to the gnome runtimes too?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-sdk-images

Also would you accept a PR about this feature?

I think we will do this once the move to fdo 1.8 (and thus buildstream) happens as we can have a singular tool to automatically generate this information.

[adds68]

Hi all,

For 18.08 (1.8), we keep a manifest file in the wiki so t's easy to see what we are shipping along with the versions.

Here: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/wikis/Release-Contents

There is also an issue open in BuildStream to try and automate this process:

• https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/issues/235

[razzeee]

Should this be moved to the docs repo?

[razzeee]

Manifests are shipped with the packages as well, so you can see what your installed runtimes have by checking e.g. for gnome: /var/lib/flatpak/runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.26/active/files/manifest.json

I think we should probably document how to do this and add that to the docs. As that seems to be the only solution, that works for every runtime.

[TingPing]

I think we should probably document how to do this and add that to the docs. As that seems to be the only solution, that works for every runtime.

A lot has changed since this comment and I think it has limited value.

Now everything is built with buildstream so the contents of manifest.json are generated from that data instead of flatpak-builder and is a bit less useful.

It also is just a list of "projects" instead of libraries. The command I said at the start is more useful (pkg-config --list-all in the runtime) in a lot of ways. Another interesting command is ldconfig -p which lists all sonames.

[wjt]

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html covers this somewhat, too