Chris Renshaw

update.json supports anywhere that allows direct downloads already. Mine point to xda attachments for example.

Then it's not a direct link. 😉🙂

It's supposed to install at some point via the app Direct Install too: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk/blob/cd96454886852917a6fcbe1e4da4246e2aaffac6/app/src/main/java/com/topjohnwu/magisk/core/tasks/MagiskInstaller.kt#L133-L134 There was a plan to remove the unneeded installer code duplication and have everything run and...

So looks like this was intentional. John said "I do not want to involve system rw at anytime during boot. This just opens up a whole can of worms..." I...

He means "while booted", hopefully that clears up the context for you.

addon.d-v2 is only guaranteed to work from a booted OTA. Lineage intentionally didn't want it working in recovery and TWRP only has it working in the _9 branch with some...

For Magisk addon.d script to install it must currently be installed from recovery, then if you have an A/B device (i.e. addon.d-v2) then the only way to be sure the...

Hmm I believe either recovery should work. It can still install the addon.d script to /system in Lineage Recovery last time I checked. But the Magisk apk *must* be flashed...

Not sure why regular addon.d (i.e. A-only devices) wouldn't work in LOS Recovery, but, again, that's a different issue from this. Edit: Oh wait, I know why, LOS Recovery doesn't...

Well, there is no modules repo within the app anymore, but there is a plan for adding 3rd party repos as a setting within the app, so I guess this...