[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Flasher debs

[From: Aleksandr Koltsoff]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 15:49, Timo Savola wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:42:04PM +0300, valtteri at rahkonen.org wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
> > > Other possibility is making a separate deb repo for tools that one
> > > would find useful when developing on debian, but since flasher is the
> > > only tool at the moment, that might be an overkill.
> > >
> > > ak.
> > I think that Timo wanted a debian repo that could have been put to a
> > sources.list and installed with apt-get. Single debian package that would
> > be downloaded via web page and installed to host with dpkg (after
> > click-through license agreement) is IMHO quite pointles because then it
> > would require one step more to use the flasher.
> Actually, I wanted none of those things.  I want a Debian package that
> shows up in the dpkg database (with proper version information) so that I
> don't have any unaccounted-for files installed on my system.
>
> Downloading a file using a browser and installing it with dpkg is as easy
> than adding a line to sources.list, updating and installing.  (I suspect
> that the flasher isn't going to be updated very often.)

I agree with Timo on this one. Just came up with another package that could be 
placed in such repo. The documentation html-stuff. Would be nice to be able 
to download the docs in proper /usr/share/doc-path when going on a trip with 
a laptop (or even with GPRS). Would make updating docs and flasher easier as 
well (would be part of regular apt-get update -process).

ak.