repomaker 1.0.0b1

Create F-Droid repositories with ease

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# Installation

## Requirements

Please make sure you have the following requirements installed
before proceeding with the installation.

### Install

* `pip` for installation of Python 3 dependencies
* `virtualenv` to create a isolated Python environment `apt install `
* Python development and build files for installing/building some dependencies

On Debian, you can simply run this:

`apt install python3-pip python3-wheel python3-dev virtualenv build-essential`

Currently, Repomaker only works with Python versions minor than 3.7 due to
[a bug in Django](https://github.com/django/django/commit/931c60c5216bd71bc11f489e00e063331cf21f40).
This means that you need to install older versions of Python, e.g. version 3.6,
if you are on a bleeding edge distro like Arch Linux.
If you try to get this running on Arch Linux,
[this comment](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker/issues/197#note_114210540) might help.

### Runtime

* `keytool` from Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
* `apksigner` or alternatively jarsigner from Java Development Kit (JDK)
* Android Asset Packaging Tool (`aapt`)
* `libmagic` for mime-type detection
* `rsync` to publish repositories
* `git` to publish repositories to git mirrors

On Debian, you can simply run this:

`sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre-headless apksigner aapt libmagic1 rsync git`

## Install into virtual environment

To not mess with other Python libraries you have installed,
we will install repomaker into its own isolated Python environment.

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 repomaker
source repomaker/bin/activate
pip install repomaker[gui]

You should now be able to start by typing:

repomaker

If you want to work on repomaker,
please see the development section below.

## Troubleshooting

First check that you really have all dependencies from above installed.

If the installation fails with something about `openssl`,
try to install `libssl-dev` with `apt install libssl-dev`.

If starting repomaker fail with the error ```Could not find `keytool` program.```,
you might run into [this known issue](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/repomaker/issues/192).
Try if `apt install openjdk-8-jdk-headless` fixes it for you.

If the graphical user interface fails to start,
you can try running `repomaker-server` and `repomaker-tasks`.
If that works, you should be able to open [127.0.0.1:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000/)
in your browser.

# Development

To work on repomaker, you need _npm_ to fetch CSS and JavaScript dependencies: `apt install npm`.

Then run `npm install` to install these dependencies.

If you want to run repomaker in your browser rather then using the GUI,
you can start it like this:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 repomaker
source repomaker/bin/activate
./setup.sh
./run.sh

## Translation

* GNU gettext `apt install gettext`

# License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the [GNU Affero General Public License](/LICENSE)
as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.


# Translating

Everything can be translated. See
[Translation and Localization](https://f-droid.org/docs/Translation_and_Localization)
for more info.

* To update translations, run `./update-translations.sh`.
* To add a new translation, run `python3 manage.py makemessages -l <lg>` where `<lg>` is the language code, e.g. `de`.

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