By not setting sdk_path when /usr/bin/aapt is found, sdk_path then defaults
to $ANDROID_HOME when its used. Since in this case, aapt will be used from
the system path, using aapt entirely ignores sdk_path. If the user runs
`fdroid build` in this setup, sdk_path will be $ANDROID_HOME, so it should
check the env vars for it, but maybe that doesn't actually work like that
yet.
This is a more flexible approach than testing for the complete SDK and
build-tools up front. This will only test for the commands that are
actually being run, so that if you only have `aapt` installed, you can do
`fdroid update` without errors, but other commands will still give
appropriate errors.
This also makes the build_tools item in config.py optional, it is only
needed if you want to force a specific version of the build-tools.
I wrote up the feature to automatically generate symlinks with a constant name
that points to the current release version. I have it on by default, with a
*config.py* option to turn it off. There is also an option to set where the
symlink name comes from which defaults to app['Name'] i.e. F-Droid.apk, but
can easily be set to app['id'], i.e. _org.fdroid.fdroid.apk_. I think the best
place for the symlinks is in the root of the repo, so like
https://f-droid.org/F-Droid.apk or https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/ChatSecure.apk
For the case of the current FDroid static link https://f-droid.org/FDroid.apk
it can just be a symlink to the generated one (https://f-droid.org/F-Droid.apk
or https://f-droid.org/org.fdroid.fdroid.apk). Right now, this feature is all
or nothing, meaning it generates symlinks for all apps in the repo, or none. I
can’t think of any problems that this might cause since its only symlinks, so
the amount of disk space is tiny. Also, I think it would be useful for having
an easy “Download this app” button on each app’s page on the “Browse” view. As
long as this button is less prominent than the “Download F-Droid” button, and
it is clear that it is better to use the FDroid app than doing direct
downloads. For the f-droid.org repo, the symlinks should probably be based on
app['id'] to prevent name conflicts.
more info here:
https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/static-urls-to-current-version-of-each-app/
By using jarsigner here, we can get rid of getsig.java, since the rest of
what getsig.java does can easily be handled in python. This simplifies
installation and deployment, and makes things work better cross-platform.
This also means that the fdroidserver Debian package no longer needs to
Build-Depends: on default-jdk, which makes builds in pbuilder run a lot
faster. :-)
refs #5https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/issues/5
