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Is something going on with the repo? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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I am getting notifications that updates are available for a bunch of apps, but the version number is the same. Update fails. Package size differs. Screenshot is an example with VLC. I cleared cache, even all data+reinstall, tried other clients (droidify) but the behaviour is the same.

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[–] ptt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Fixed

[–] Lyubo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I noticed that many people use unofficial F-Droid clients and wanted to say that unofficial F-Droid clients harm the official F-Droid mirrors because they don't handle them correctly. So please 🙏, if you don't heavily relay on some feature in unofficial client, try the official: F-Droid Basic kr Classic. F-Droid Basic is the most secure too.

[–] wasu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

What is the source of this info? If it was doing serious damage to them they wouldn't publish these clients on their platform.

[–] kallax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Probably https://github.com/Droid-ify/client/issues/1266 caused by https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver/-/work_items/1327 . Should be resolved when they redeploy F-Droid.

[–] kallax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Seems to be resolved on my end now

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reading through the second link, it says that Droid-ify still uses the legacy (v1) API, why hasn't it migrated to v2? Is there a technical reason or is it just preference?

[–] kallax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Looks like migrating to index v2 is in progress, but is already a long time coming: https://github.com/Droid-ify/client/issues/287

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The same here while using droid-ify.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Same here

[–] Teknikal@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 days ago

I noticed this on droidify a few days ago had to disable the update on that version of libretorrent to stop it continuously trying to update.

[–] alextecplayz@techhub.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

@BeatTakeshi they appear to be different architecture versions of 3.7.0

I was confused too since Droid-ify didn't seem to list the architecture of the versions, and while it did download the latest version that's 49MB, it didn't install because it's x86_64 apk, which won't install on arm64(-v8a).

[–] TheMadCodger@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Oh good, it's not just me. On droid-ify, but yeah, same thing.