From 80b0b8b5b18aa16a67eedf4cc4e44bd0ecfcbc17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 05:12:17 +0100 Subject: Add f-droid privilege extension Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli --- README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bebf5a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -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. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3