From ec9cf565abf91aa0581e116f3767e5a4d70d55c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Black Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:42:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] about disabling recipes and purging apks in the manual --- docs/fdroid.texi | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/fdroid.texi b/docs/fdroid.texi index f53894a3..2b4dbb8b 100644 --- a/docs/fdroid.texi +++ b/docs/fdroid.texi @@ -691,6 +691,9 @@ everything after the ! is used as a reason why it can't be built. The purpose of this feature is to allow non-buildable releases (e.g. the source is not published) to be flagged, so the scripts don't generate repeated messages about them. (And also to record the information for review later). +If an apk has already been built, ! causes it to be deleted once +@code{fdroid update} is run; this is the procedure if ever a version has to +be replaced. In addition to the three, always required, parameters described above, further parameters can be added (in name=value format) to apply further @@ -925,7 +928,9 @@ include it. If this field is present, the application does not get put into the public index. This allows metadata to be retained while an application is temporarily disabled from being published. The value should be a description of why the -application is disabled. +application is disabled. No apks or source code archives are deleted: to purge +an apk see the Build Version section or delete manually for developer builds. +For this reason, the field is deployed when an app has outlived it's usefulness. @node Requires Root @section Requires Root -- 2.30.2