Python is heavily based on its core data types, and dict is one of the more
important ones. Even classes are basically a wrapper around a dict. This
converts metadata.App to be a subclass of dict so it can behave like a dict
when being dumped and loaded. This makes its drastically easier to use
different data formats for build metadata and for sending data to the
client. This approach will ultimately mean we no longer have to maintain
custom parsing and dumping code.
This also means then that the YAML/JSON field names will not have spaces in
them, and they will match exactly what it used as the dict keys once the
data is parsed, as well as matching exactly the instance attribute names:
* CurrentVersion: 1.2.6
* app['CurrentVersion'] == '1.2.6'
* app.CurrentVersion == '1.2.6'
Inspired by:
https://goodcode.io/articles/python-dict-object/
This makes it a lot easier to work with Build instances with parsing and
dumping libraries, since they expect only core Python types (dict, list,
tuple, str, etc)
The original index.xml format needs to stay around for backwards
compatibility, but we shouldn't touch it anymore once the new format is in
place. This is a test to make sure `fdroid update` can still generate the
correct XML.
install_list and uninstall_list should be tuples or lists in order to
ensure that the order is preserved.
These tests also check that the added and lastupdated dates are
working correct, based on the dates in tests/stats/known_apks.txt. I
could see no useful way to test the timestamp, it is just hardcoded
using a regexp search-and-replace. Running these tests manually might
require deleting tmp/apkcache.
ad2b9b99c2 put this in the wrong place, it
was running it on the buildserver host rather than in the buildserver VM
itself, where the builds actually run.
refs #148
These should be reasonably backwards compatible, and there is already
automake1.11 for those that need a version that old. As for cmake, there
are five apps that seem to it:
com.amaze.filemanager
org.dolphinemu.dolphinemu
org.navitproject.navit
org.yabause.android
org.videolan.vlc
It looks like VLC is the only app that is currently building and using
cmake in the most recent releases. Some of them used to use cmake, but no
longer.
This is to clean up the code for the introduction of a new index format.
This also makes it so that only repo/categories.txt is generated, and not
archive/categories.txt.
Currently, the only thing that I can find that reads categories.txt is the
wordpress plugin, e.g. wp-fdroid. And it only reads repo/categories.txt
not archive/categories.txt.
Sometimes, a build process requires newer versions of build tools than are
available in Debian/stable. Oftentimes, using the package straight from
Debian/testing works fine when a package is not available as a backport.
libtool 2.4.6 is needed for building VLC, so it is one example of this.
The preferences file sets up the apt "pinning" so that all updates are not
installed from testing, only the packages that are requested by adding
"/testing" after then package name.
closes#224
In order to install a package from jessie-backports, apt-get has to be told
to get it from there rather than the main archive. It will not use
jessie-backports by default even if it is added as an apt source.
closes#224
