[GNC] Version Information in new Flatpak Release?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 6:17 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:36 PM Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 12:19 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>> Tommy Trussell  reported a similar strange update prompt on Ubuntu 22.04
>>> a couple of weeks ago with a very tardy prompt to update to 4.13, which he
>>> already had. I guess that's not a very reliable tool.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>
>> I've been playing around with the flatpak history command and noticed
>> that my "update to the same version" update to GnuCash was offered soon
>> after an update to the flatpak runtime. So my current theory is that all
>> the applications in the flatpak flathub repository got recompiled for an
>> update to a new runtime.
>>
>> The flatpak history command gives you quite a bit of information,
>> including the old and new commit IDs, HOWEVER I haven't yet discovered how
>> to correlate the commit IDs visible in the history command to whatever is
>> available in flathub. All I know is what got updated based on what happened
>> on MY machines. I presume there's a way to examine the repository, and
>> maybe even a history of when things get recompiled.
>>
>
> For documentation purposes, here's a strange thing I see now (maybe the
> same thing others are seeing). You can use the remote-ls command to list
> "everything," however, when you isolate GnuCash, you might see something
> different.
>
> Note the apparent version and commit of the remote-ls differs from the
> remote-info
>
>
> $ flatpak remote-ls flathub | grep gnucash
> GnuCash org.gnucash.GnuCash 4.13+ (Flathub 4.13) stable
>
> $ flatpak remote-ls --columns=all flathub | grep gnucash
> GnuCash Manage your finances, accounts, and investments
> org.gnucash.GnuCash 4.13+ (Flathub 4.13) stable flathub
> app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable 08e6ac442846
> org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/43 319.0 MB 110.4 MB
>
> $ flatpak remote-info flathub org.gnucash.GnuCash
>         ID: org.gnucash.GnuCash
>        Ref: app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/x86_64/stable
>       Arch: x86_64
>     Branch: stable
> Collection: org.flathub.Stable
>   Download: 110.4 MB
>  Installed: 319.0 MB
>    Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/43
>        Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/43
>
>     Commit:
> 08e6ac442846255491fa72592cd8451e274efd7649e430d9f968adc6f0e723f3
>     Parent:
> 511cf18127561c55b5999121c6b301ca1e90d6cc988a00701257606df7fae86f
>    Subject: Package GnuCash 5.0 (c9b14ae9)
>       Date: 2023-03-26 20:34:31 +0000
>
>
> I have not yet run the flatpak update -- here's what it looks like when I
> run it "verbosely." Note I still do not know if I'll be getting GnuCash
> 4.13 or 5.0 -- the commits don't seem to relate to what I can see...
>
> $ flatpak update -v --app org.gnucash.GnuCash
>
> I ended up with GnuCash 5.0