builds straight from source repo using .fdroid.yml
The overarching theme of the merge request is allowing _.fdroid.yml_ to be included in an app's source repo, then letting `fdroid build` build the app straight out of the git repo without requiring a setup like _fdroiddata_ (e.g. _config.py_, _metadata/packagename.txt_, etc.). _fdroiddata_ repos can then include source repos with a _.fdroid.yml_ by having _metadata/packagename.txt_ that includes just:
```
Repo Type:git
Repo:https://gitlab.com/upstream/app.git
```
Any other metadata fields that are included in _metadata/packagename.txt_ will override what is in _.fdroid.yml_, giving the repo manager the final say about what is included in their repo. This setup provides a number of benefits:
* CI systems like jenkins, travis, gitlab-ci can build from _.fdroid.yml_
* very easy to start building apps using `fdroid build`, no separate repo needed
* some maintenance can be offloaded to the upstream dev
See merge request !184
When a git repo has a .fdroid.yml file in it, and `fdroid build` is run
directly in that git repo, then this uses the file path as the remote for
the git repo in build/appid that is actually built. That makes it possible
to run builds of commits that are only local, and makes things a whole lot
faster.
This allows a source repo to include a complete metadata file so that it
can be built directly in place using `fdroid build`. If that app is then
included in fdroiddata, it will first load the source repo type and URL
from fdroiddata, then read .fdroid.yml if it exists, then include the rest
of the metadata as specified in fdroiddata, so that fdroiddata has
precedence over the metadata in the source code.
This lets `fdroid build` apps without having a whole fdroiddata setup, but
instead just directly in place in the source code. This also lets devs
optionallu maintain the fdroid metadata as part of their app, rather than
in fdroiddata without loosing any control. This should make it easier to
spread around the maintenance load.
Something like `gradle: yes` in YAML will be parsed as a boolean, since
'yes' is officially defined as a boolean true in YAML. For metadata fields
that need to be lists, this needs to be converted. Same goes for a single
string like `gradle: customFlavor`.
This includes more info to help track down problems with reproducible
builds, like the specific version being built, and which exact versions of
the Android SDK and NDK were used.
Any variation in the Android tools used to build an APK can cause the build
to be unreproducible. To help troubleshoot these times, this posts the
installed versions of the Android SDK and NDK components to the lastbuild
log, for the long term record.
refs #148
Build Privileged Extension OTA update.zip using `fdroid build`
This allows `fdroid build` to build the OTA update ZIP file for F-Droid Privileged Extension, so that the official releases can be built and distributed via the normal F-Droid channels. This is related to #233
Ultimately the client will also have to be updated to allow it to handle the non-APK files.
See merge request !181
This makes sure there is a GPG signature on any file that is included in
the repo, including APKs, OBB, source tarballs, media files, OTA update
ZIPs, etc. Having a GPG signature is more important on non-APK files since
they mostly do not have any signature mechanism of their own.
This also adds basic tests of adding non-APK/OBB files to a repo with
`fdroid update`.
closes#232
This makes it so that the final build product can be specified in output=
and it'll work no matter if its an APK or not. This was developed around
the case of building the OTA update.zip for the Privileged Extension. It
should work for any build process in theory but it has not yet been tested.
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/privileged-extension/issues/9
The versionName is defined as a string or string resource that can be any
arbitrary data. fdroid should not second guess the developer here, and
should just use the versionName unmodified. For anything that needs to
compare different versions of apps, versionCode should always be used since
that's what Android uses.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html#vname
Support media files
This is the first step in supporting adding artibitrary files to fdroid repos, targeted add supporting media files and flashable _update.zip_ files like used to install the Privileged Extension. This reuses the existing metadata fields to keep compatibilty with older versions, but that means that lots of names are confusingly named since they refer to aspects of an APK rather than a generic file. We can address that later when we refactor the whole index metadata.
See merge request !177
This adds the most basic level of support for including arbitrary files in
an F-Droid repository. This is useful for things like including videos,
ebooks, update.zip files for ROM updates, and more. The aim is to have
this as generic as possible to keep it flexible for unforeseen uses.
Code-wise, this is really just a first effort. This area of code has not
been touched in a very long time, and the repo parsing is done in a giant
function that is not easy to break apart. It should be broken up to more
cleanly support arbitrary files.
Also remove the TODO line, we've decided to keep the old permission
format for now, at least until there is a major overhaul of the index
data format. And the issue tracker the proper place for TODOs.
buildserver fixes on the way to KVM
Here are a couple of relatively basic fixes I found while working on the KVM support (merge request coming soon).
See merge request !174
No point in running any other code if the script is just going to bail
out with an error. This assumes that ./makebuildserver is only ever
run from a git clone of fdroidserver.git.
