GPS trying to manage owner installed APKs?

axino

How do I stop google play store from trying to manage apps installed in non-GPS Owner profile but made available in second user profile with GPS?

Dumdum

axino
If I'm understanding correctly, you want GPlay to stop updating apps across profiles? You can't. That's how app updating works on Android due to downgrade protection.

axino

Dumdum
I'm not sure that's the issue I'm seeing initially. I have two different profiles, with separate instances of GPS.
The apps installed as owner via apk, aegis and proton, I made "avaialble from owner profile" in both prior to GPS.
One profile, GPS didn't install them, they say installed via file, but it is trying to manage and update them.
The other profile, they aren't being picked up by GPS at all, even tho they were also made available from owner profile.
I just created a 3rd profile to check.

From what you're saying, if I let GPS update them in Profile1, the owner profile will even see the update? I thought all profiles were siloed. Owner profile does not have GPS installed.

de0u

axino I thought all profiles were siloed.

No, in many ways. Two profiles on the same device are in the same time zone, share the notion of time, have the same battery percentage level, etc.

In this case, while two profiles have different app data for each app, the code of the app itself is shared. If any profile updates an app, the app is updated in all profiles.

axino

de0u
Understood, thank you. But why does only Profile1 with GPS try to manage apps that exist in play store, and not Profile 2?
This is the biggest confusion for me. Two profiles, different google accounts, similar setups on the surface.

de0u

axino Why does only Profile1 with GPS try to manage apps that exist in play store, and not Profile 2?

There I am unable to help (I don't use Google Play).

GrapheneOS

axino Apps can be installed or not installed in a given profile, but the packages for apps installed in any profile are share among any profiles with the same app installed. This is based on package name. The OS package manager enforces that an update must have the same signing key and an equal or greater version. Key rotations can be authorized but only newer Android versions support those so generally you'd still keep signing the package with the old key used by older Android versions until you no longer supported them by raising the minimum supported version to the point key rotation is fully supported by every OS version.

Package name is meant to uniquely identify a published build variant, with no reuse for different build variants such as a Play Store vs. non-Play-Store build variant, but many app developers violate this guideline and cause confusion for their users by not using separate package names.

Does this help you?

axino

GrapheneOS
Thank you, it does. Now that I understand, I need to ask if the two independent GPS store behavior differences are cosmetic or bug?
If the proton app devs use the same package build variant on github/obtainium as in the google play store, then both independent google play store should show the apps under the account "manage" section.
User1 that has proton vpn installed via obtainium or file, in the store it says "the app installed isn't from play store". the proton pass app doesn't say that, however neither show up in the play store manage section.
User2 has both apps available from file, but play store has them under the manage section, and isn't flagging that they weren't installed from GPS.
I thought maybe because the app was previously installed on another device with that account, but it wasn't the case for all the apps.
When things in two isolated environments on the same device don't behave identical, it may be more than cosmetic, so I thought to ask. I'm no dev, I'm only good with patterns. But it would be an issue for me, if the two GPS independent instances weren't actually independent and isolated between profiles. Or if it was potentially a different issue of checks or functions not running because the first instance did run. But it's better to ask and let professional to theorize, or say it's cosmetic. Or that there cannot be two independent GPS instances in different user profiles.