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

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hello,

ext Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote:
> 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).
> 
> 
We can not provide the flasher anywhere else then behind the "License
Acceptance" page. We can create a deb package however and put it there,
but only there.

About the docs:
You can check out the whole source of the website from svn
(only the forrest based stuff):
https://stage.maemo.org/svn/website
We will provide some scripts and a how-to about rebuilding the site on
your PC. (They are ready, so it is a bit of testing and then publishing.)

> 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.
> 
The idea is good, but we it would mean extra maintenance work whenever
we update the repository. I know it did not happen too often (I mean
updating packages) in the past 5 months, but hope this will change :)

In case somebody creates such a package for 1.1rc5 then we could
check|test and then upload it to the repository.

Cheers,
Ferenc