There is an odd quirk with the Android SDK: while the source code is Apache-2.0 licensed, free software, the binaries that Google ships are not free software and even put substantial restrictions on the apps that are built with the Google binaries. @ beuc has been leading the effort to make actual f…

JFYI, ReplicantOS team did SDK builds but gave up for some reason (there’s a relevant bug in their redmine). Yet I’m sure you still can find people with that experience.

Replicant shifted focus off SDK/NDK because they thought Debian would do it - but providing several clean Debian package sets of complete SDK platforms turned out quite hard and time consuming, so possibly they could revise their position and help with this project :slight_smile: On other news whil…

Great news! An sdkmanager repo would be great to have. I won’t have time to work on that until January. Feel free to ping me about it.

OK! By the way you mentioned getting some disk space and I begin to be short of backed-up space on my end. How do you see things moving forward on that front? :slight_smile:

We will have space on the mirror server for these rebuilds. Do you think they’ll be larger than 100gigs?

If we rebuild all host archs and tools and system images for all Android releases, we may reach that, but: when we reach that goal I’ll offer a bottle of fine champagne :wink: if space becomes a problem we can restrict to a subset (e.g. the packages/archs that F-Droid is most interested in) Curre…

Ok, so we can put this repo on mirror.f-droid.org without a problem. Before copying your existing binaries, I’d like to try a quick test of whether they are reproducible. It would be nice to launch this repo with reproducible builds.

If you mean reproducible as in https://reproducible-builds.org/ I highly doubt so, but independent binaries would still be nice. If you intend to use the CI rules you added, beware that these differ from the normal build system (typically: not the same working directory, not the same UID, etc.). I …

Something like this Docker possibly. I didn’t expect to have to use a non-dash prefix (androidrebuilds/android-rebuilds:sdk-XXX) OTL I’m open to better naming schemes.

I think we could probably cheat our way into reproducible builds to start with, using Docker images and disorderfs to provide a sorted filesystem. Let me know what you need from me and I’ll do it! I want to see this happen!

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