Issue #1887: Use F-Droid's signed build of RepWifi so that it can be easily updated in F-Droid - Replicant

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Issue #1887

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Use F-Droid's signed build of RepWifi so that it can be easily updated in F-Droid

Added by Kurtis Hanna over 6 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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RepWifi

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Replicant 6.0 0004

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08/26/2018

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For our next release, we should add RepWifi to vendor/replicant/get-prebuilts so we use F-Droid's signed build instead of the build that comes with 0003 https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantSourceCode#Prebuilt-apps

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Related to Replicant - Feature #1895: Implement a self-update system for RepWifi

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Fil Bergamo

09/26/2018

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Related to Replicant - Feature #1878: Make f-droid be FSDG compliant again to be able to include it again in Replicant

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04/23/2018

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Updated by Joonas Kylmälä over 6 years ago

We can just use https://f-droid.org/repo/fil.libre.repwifiapp_9.apk that I found from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fil.libre.repwifiapp/ ? It has signature by "F-Droid <admin@f-droid.org>" so should be good, correct?

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Updated by Fil Bergamo over 6 years ago

Joonas Kylmälä wrote:

We can just use https://f-droid.org/repo/fil.libre.repwifiapp_9.apk that I found from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fil.libre.repwifiapp/ ? It has signature by "F-Droid <admin@f-droid.org>" so should be good, correct?

Yes, the apks built by F-Droid should be reachable with links following this general structure:

https://f-droid.org/repo/fil.libre.repwifiapp_[VERSION_CODE].apk

where "[VERSION_CODE]" is the integer indicating sequential versions of RepWifi, as indicated in AndroidManifest.xml

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
   <!-- ... -->
    android:versionCode="10" 
   <!-- ... -->

The latest version code for RepWifi is currently 10.

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Updated by Fil Bergamo over 6 years ago

Related to Feature #1895: Implement a self-update system for RepWifi added

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Updated by Fil Bergamo over 6 years ago

I think we should reconsider this approach, if we chose to eventually remove F-Droid from Replicant.

It would make no sense to provide a prebuilt from F-Droid to ease future updates, when F-Droid isn't shipped with Replicant making future updates impractical.

If we remove F-Droid, then I think it makes a lot more sense to develop a method for RepWifi to update itself.
This way it could still be built from source.

I opened a feature request to myself: #1895

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