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Currently, app installs and updates are treated the same from the point of view of the parental controls permissions checks. This was intended so that parents have to re-check each app update to make sure it’s still appropriate for their children. In practice, though, parents are not that hands-on, and there are a lot of regular app updates. The tradeoff between app updates (which bring security fixes and features) and not changing so much in apps that a parent’s initial assessment of their suitability for their child is probably skewed the wrong way. We should be preferring updates (in particular, so we get security updates), and assuming that if an app is OK to begin with, it’s probably not going to change so radically as to become unsuitable for a child with an update. As a data point, Google Play’s parental controls will allow apps to be automatically updated even if a child account can’t install new apps. So, implement this by splitting the existing `org.freedesktop.Flatpak.override-parental-controls` polkit action in two: the existing action for _installs_, and a new `org.freedesktop.Flatpak.override-parental-controls-update` action for _updates_. `FlatpakDir` is changed to use the appropriate action depending on whether an app is being installed from scratch or updated. The default policies for the two actions differ. Users/Distros who disagree with the new default policy can provide their own polkit rules to change the behaviour of `override-parental-controls-update` so that it matches `override-parental-controls`, to bring back the old behaviour. Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org> Fixes: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5552
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.
See https://flatpak.org/ for more information.
Flatpak is available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and can be installed from there. See https://flatpak.org/setup/ for quick setup instructions for many distributions.
Community discussion happens in #flatpak:matrix.org, on the mailing list, and on the Flathub Discourse.
Read documentation for Flatpak here.
Contributing
Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help:
- Fix one of the issues and submit a PR
- Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR
- Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at http://docs.flatpak.org and developed over in flatpak-docs
- Find a bug and submit a detailed report including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce
- Add your favorite application to Flathub by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and submitting it
- Improve the Flatpak support in your favorite Linux distribution
Hacking
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Related Projects
Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem:
- Flatseal: An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI
- Flat-manager: A tool for managing Flatpak repositories