It will make it a lot easier to manage the cache if we use the original
file names, which often include the file version. This also changes the
download process to be resumable if there is a partial file in the cache,
and switches from calling wget on the command line to using the python libs
'requests' and 'clint' to provide a similar experience. While its not so
important for this particular bit of code to use those libraries, I think
those two will allow us to provide a better user experience throughout the
whole of fdroidserver.
In this case, it is already doing special tricks fetching the file size
from the server before trying to download it. I suppose this code could
instead check if the file exists, and if so, check the hash sum. I think
that would be slower for most people since checking the hash on large files
takes a noticeable about of time, while a HTTP HEAD request is pretty tiny.
Install version 25 now. Also use the smaller tools zip. While at it,
also remove the tools re-install - it's not worth it, as long as we keep
the initial tools zip up to date.
config option to enable per-app repos for nightly builds
For Guardian Project, we've been running an fdroid repo for the nightly builds for each of our apps: https://dev.guardianproject.info/debug This is built using a big, hacked up shell script: [update-debug-fdroid-repo](https://github.com/guardianproject/fdroid-repo-tools/blob/master/update-debug-fdroid-repo). It has proven very useful to us to be able to subscribe to the nightly build for a single app, so this the first step of porting that horrid shell script to `fdroidserver`.
This also helps make the fdroidserver tool suite the single set of tools for all types of builds and releases. That will hopefully drive more free software developers to make f-droid.org the core channel for official releases.
See merge request !66
On some setups, using a custom apt mirror is essential, so this adds a
command line flag to override the default one:
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
For example, someone who runs a local mirror for offline and low bandwidth
situations.
This uses a % rather than a .format() to avoid escaping { and }, which have
meaning when using .format().
