Google is making gradle automatically download Android SDK components that
are needed by the build, but not already present. We need to support that
since it would be a lot of work to fight it. Plus, since each build starts
from the fresh snapshot, it should not be such a big deal to let each
build install stuff during the process.
closes#268
Google is pushing gradle towards downloading all the SDK components that it
needs, rather than having a preconfigured SDK installed. The buildserver
strongly supports the old model, with added checksum checking even. We can
still support the old model by pre-configuring the SDK and locking it down
as root. This can then also support the new model by setting the file perms
so that new packages can be auto-installed, but they cannot overwrite any
packages that come pre-installed and pre-verified.
fdroiddata!2096
closes#247
gradle will now automatically download and install missing bits of the
Android SDK. While we prefer to have the SDK packages fully verified, we
should allow this behavior on the buildserver to ensure that builds work
even when the buildserver can't be updated. Since each build starts from a
clean snapshot, this auto-installed build-tools will only be used for the
single build, so it won't affect other apps.
The new ConstraintLayout library in Android Support has some new custom way
of handling the license. I suspect that they are going to use this new way
with all of the bits that gradle downloads. We also have to support it for
apps that use it, including soon fdroidclient.
fdroiddata!2094
ci-images!1
I think the `android update sdk` tool is installing all of the m2 files
that are present in the temp cache, and it seems to do it in order of
newest to oldest. Well done, and I thought that tool couldn't get any
worse. So only include the latest version of android_m2repository*.zip in
the temp cache.
The Android SDK by default includes some Google repositories of their
proprietary SDKs. We of course do not want that stuff ever. We also do
not need the emulator images since this process does not currently install
or run an emulator.
`android update sdk --no-ui` is the standard command line tool for
installing the Android SDK. By symlinking into the $ANDROID_HOME/temp dir,
the cached files can still be used. This converts the chef recipe to a
vagrant shell provisioning script since it was all bash anyway.
Some file names no longer officially have a -linux in them, so those were
changed to keep the cache working with the default filename.
