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Its too bad its still flakey at updating apps. I've been using it for a few apps for many years, and I'd say easily half of app updates simply fail for non-obvi

by ac29 8y ago

Its too bad its still flakey at updating apps. I've been using it for a few apps for many years, and I'd say easily half of app updates simply fail for non-obvious reasons. Its been this way across multiple devices and countless versions of Android, so I'm left to believe the problem is with F-droid itself.

Avamander 8y ago
I also heavily heavily hate the idea that they sign everything, the app stores must not be trusted. They should only be signing over packages already reproducibly compiled.
- ubercow13 8y ago
  Why? Isn't that how signatures of any Linux distro work too? The packager signs the package not the developer.
  - Avamander 8y ago
    Because they force users to trust them unnecessarily.
- opencl 8y ago
  What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all? Android will not run unsigned apps. This would result in F-Droid having exactly 3 apps. They're working on getting more reproducible builds but the build system is not exactly great for it.
  - Avamander 8y ago
    > What are you expecting them to do, not host non-reproducible builds at all? Yes.
    - opencl 8y ago
      Well you can start your own F-Droid repo only hosting reproducible builds and build them yourself. It is a very large amount of work which is why it's happening so slowly.
mindslight 8y ago
I've had problems with YALP store suddenly being unable to find su and then no longer working. F-Droid is in the same boat where it gives you the choice of a few different methods to install apps, because it's still trying to find where it fits in. IMHO that place is sideload as system app when you first install the OS. Which was my solution to the YALP issue. (YALP store is not on my actual phone - that only has F-Droid)