Whats wrong with my singning key?

Hello Community

I have created an fdroid repo on my fedora server. When I type “fdroid update” there are following critical errors:

    CRITICAL: 'keystorepass' not found in config.yml!
    CRITICAL: This command requires a signing key, you can create one using: fdroid update --create-key

I have a keystore.p12 file inside the fdroid folder and created the key using this command:
keytool -genkeypair -alias fdroid -keyalg RSA -keystore keystore.p12

Following the config.yml file:

# Copy this file to config.yml, then amend the settings below according to
# your system configuration.
repo_url: https://my_website.com/fdroid/repo
repo_name: My-App F-Droid repository
repo_description: MyApp Fdroid app repository
keypass: keYFromSigningKey
repo_keyalias: fdroid

Now my question is: What am I missing here? I already have a keystore file and provided the password for it inside the config file. But, I did only create one password and not 2 (keypass and keystorepass?) Did I use the wrong command for creating the key?

After 90 days, the key expires as it says. How can I update/create a new key without breaking the repository? Thank you all for your help.

fdroid update --create-metadata --delete-unknown --pretty --verbose --create-key <---- notice last parameter ? :slight_smile:

Yes, but I already crated one and signed the app with. Do I need to create a new one with fdroid update --create-key?

Sorry, I am very new to fdroid and don’t wanna mess it up now, before the first app release.
Don’t I need to give it a password when creating it with this command?

@Izzy thoughts?

@Licaon_Kter
Could you please make me a list with commands to create a key, corrrectly sign the app with it and publish/updating my repo?

I think, this is the easiest way to do it.
Please, I would love to have an fdroid repo now. Thank you.

I already did…

Also: Setup an F-Droid App Repo | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Also see: Setting up a simple binary F-Droid repo (based on how I set up mine). Also make sure to run the fdroid commands from inside your repo root.

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