[Replicant] review repwifi

[Fil]

I finally got to reproduce your scenario..
I think it's indeed a problem in how F-droid stores app information..
It seems like repo synchronization actually takes place *only* when the
local database and the remote one differ.
You could spend a whole day swiping down, pretending to be updating the
repo, while in facts nothing happens, as long as local information is
considered to be identical to the remote (unless you clear the local
cache, as we will see in a while...)

So here's a rough guess about what actually happened: since you updated
F-droid's repos when the old RepWifi was still installed, F-Droid
flagged the other versions as "incompatible" in the local database; when
you removed the old RepWifi, those other versions remained flagged as
"incompatible". At this point, even if you try to update the repos, the
local database won't be refreshed at all, as the local metadata about
apps is considered to be already up-to-date, so nothing happens.

To solve this situation, you can erase F-droid's cached data and restart
your phone:
> adb root
> adb shell
> rm -r /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid/*

after a reboot, update F-droid's repos once again, and you should see
the newest version of RepWifi, ready to be installed.

Please, let me know how it goes..

Cheers,

Fil


On 01/03/19 16:19, ni nhar wrote:
> Thank you. 
>
>
> > Did you update F-Droid's repositories after
> deleting the old version of
> > RepWifi? You can update the repos by swiping
> down in the app list.
> > Also, you should try rebooting your phone. It
> could be that some
> > metadata about v.0.5 remain cached somehow
> somewhere.
>
> Powered off the phone
> and restarted it.
>
> Started fdroid and navigated the different menus.
>
> fdroid -> settings
>
> If include incompatible versions is off
> and include anti feature apps is off
> and unstable updates is off
>
> then if I search for
> repwifi
> it returns repwifi 0.5 version grayed out and no
> versions with compatible signature.
>
> If include incompatible versions is on
> and include anti feature apps is on
> and unstable updates is on
>
> then if searching for
> repwifi
> it returns repwifi 0.5 version grayed out and
> under versions I get to select to update between
> 0.9.1 beta
> or 0.9 beta or 0.6.2.
> If I press update to 0.9.1 beta it returns this
> message: The new version is signed with a different
> key to the old one. To install the new version,
> the old one must be uninstalled first.
> Please do this and try again. (Note that
> uninstalling will erase any internal data
> stored by the app)
>
>
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