deltas: Include an endianness marker

We screwed up and had delta integers use host endianness.  Start
digging out by at least annotating the endianness.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762515

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-static-delta-compilation.c b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-static-delta-compilation.c
index 2071bb68..e579e910 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-static-delta-compilation.c
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-static-delta-compilation.c
@@ -1306,6 +1306,10 @@ ostree_repo_static_delta_generate (OstreeRepo                   *self,
                                   cancellable, error))
     goto out;
 
+  /* NOTE: Add user-supplied metadata first.  This is used by at least
+   * xdg-app as a way to provide MIME content sniffing, since the
+   * metadata appears first in the file.
+   */
   g_variant_builder_init (&metadata_builder, G_VARIANT_TYPE ("a{sv}"));
   if (metadata != NULL)
     {
@@ -1320,6 +1324,21 @@ ostree_repo_static_delta_generate (OstreeRepo                   *self,
         }
     }
 
+  { guint8 endianness_char;
+    switch (G_BYTE_ORDER)
+      {
+      case G_LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        endianness_char = 'l';
+        break;
+      case G_BIG_ENDIAN:
+        endianness_char = 'B';
+        break;
+      default:
+        g_assert_not_reached ();
+      }
+    g_variant_builder_add (&metadata_builder, "{sv}", "ostree.endianness", g_variant_new_byte (endianness_char));
+  }
+
   if (opt_filename)
     {
       g_autoptr(GFile) f = g_file_new_for_path (opt_filename);