AppImageCommunity
Capabilty to show and manipulate information
AppImageUpdate should be able to show everything it knows about the update information contained on a supported AppImage for diagnostic purposes.
It also should be able to manipulate this information on the CLI at least.
You may be interested in appimageupdatetool-x86_64.AppImage --describe : Parse and describe AppImage and its update information and exit.
It also should be able to manipulate this information on the CLI at least.
This was implemented in an earlier branch but current versions don't have this capability anymore; I second this as the AppImage format is specifically designed to allow for "after the fact" modifications of the update information without rebuilding the whole AppImage (e.g., when you move to a different server).
You may be interested in appimageupdatetool-x86_64.AppImage --describe
Exactly this information, but it'd actually be nice if AppImageUpdate-x86_64.AppImage also had functionality such as --describe, --version, --help. Or just all of appimageupdatetool's functions, on the CLI - even if it starts the GUI otherwise.
I second this as the AppImage format is specifically designed to allow for "after the fact" modifications of the update information
Yes. And I think it'd be most intuitive if the tool gave a hand with editing it. As one string and/or each individual property.
@Radtoo I would also like to move the argument parsing and handling into a module shared between UI and CLI. I just never found time for it, and it wasn't really a priority.
We can also add a functionality to manipulate the information, but it's also not hard to edit the corresponding ELF section yourself. Just write whatever you need the value to be into the section .upd_info (there's tools for that), until we provide an official solution.
