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f-droid just requested permission to update other apps? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any idea why? I've been using it for months. I probably had to grant permission when I first installed it, but haven't had to again since then, until just now.

Also, some of the time, when F-droid updates an app, the update just goes through. But other times I get a dialogue asking "do you want to update this app?". It seems random. Any idea?

Phone is a Moto G5 Stylus 2023 and it recently got a security update from Motorola, but I think I've done some F-droid updates since then. However, this may be related.

The other possibility is that something might have happened to F-droid's code signing credentials, e.g. someone messed with them? That thought is basically why I'm asking here.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m not an android dev nor am I affiliated with the f droid project so this might be wrong: As far as I know f droid started using an Android built in mechanism for updating. It has to request permissions to install and update apps at all and then it has to ask once for each individual app.

So you allow it to update apps and install X. Then once X gets an update you will be asked whether f droid is allowed to install ist. When the next update for X comes f droid will be silently allowed to install it.

As far as I understand it’s just how this kind of permission works on android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"Session Installer"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Maybe it has to do with the new feature https://f-droid.org/en/2024/02/01/twif.html

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Fdroid only gained the ability to auto update apps a while ago, so that's why you got that prompt.

Also, if the permissions an app requests change, fdroid can't always auto-update it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

You have to grant permission to update each app one single time and then after that it will no longer ask you to manually update that app anymore as it will just be able to do it. For apps that are very commonly updated you will see this once and then not again. Some apps are rarely updated and when everything else has been updated automatically you'll still get this one app that has not been and needs permission.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Look at the notes about the update. It will say what permissions have been changed. It is provably just the base android permissions have changed by adding a feature that has altered what your previous permissions were set at