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

[From: Aleksandr Koltsoff]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 15:59, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
> 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).

This could be taken a step further infact. Assume that a separate repo would 
exist for debian-based development.

Make a package called 'maemo-sdk'. It would contain preinst/postinst logic to 
download and install the sdk files (user could be asked to select whether 
they want to install both x86 and arm-versions). It would also depend on the 
flasher-deb and the documentation-deb (if one would exist). Could also depend 
on devhelper, but could be difficult to do so that it devhelper would include 
the versions of datafiles suitable for exact GTK/Glib-versions used in the 
SDK. So, it would also install sbox, and configure the targets (by using 
default names "SDKx86" and "SDKarm" or similar). It would also configure 
xephyr and such.

This way getting and starting the SDK would be simplified for new users as 
well as the sbox version supported by the SDK could be limited to 0.9.8.5 (or 
whatever will be supported in later versions).

This requires real work on N's part though, but isn't impossible.

ak.