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| author | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> | 2021-01-07 05:12:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> | 2021-01-07 05:53:39 +0100 |
| commit | 80b0b8b5b18aa16a67eedf4cc4e44bd0ecfcbc17 (patch) | |
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Add f-droid privilege extension
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
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@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Some APK need to be included in the final images. + +The APKs could be built from within the Android build system. However doing that +as-is would have the side effect of having them signed with the distribution +keys. + +In turn this could prevent the users that are using F-Droid (or other package +managers using the F-Droid repositories) from being able to upgrade these +applications. + +In addition using the Android distribution keys could make things harder as it +would be up to the distribution to handle the migration from one key set to +another. + +Including the F-Droid APKs as prebuilt fixes all that. + +Alternatively we could also try to build them in a reproducible way and embed +F-Droid's signature inside the final APK, but that probably requires more work.
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