[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] modifying root filesystem

[From: Dave Neuer]

On 1/16/06, Devesh Kothari <devesh.kothari at nokia.com> wrote:
> ext Lorn Potter wrote:
>
> >I tried the instructions and scripts for modifying the root filesystem,
> >http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_use_flasher_rootfs.html
> >
> >It seems the rootfs.packages and sources.list are out of date, or there are a
> >few packages missing (hildon-status-bar-display).

<snip>

> make sure you dont miss this step below
>
> The reference root filesystem includes some binary modules that can be
> downloaded separately. These packages are not necessary, you may create
> a root filesystem without them, but some functionality will be missing.
> To download these packages, please follow this link
> <http://maemo.org/downloads/d2.php>.
>
> http://maemo.org/downloads/d2.php
>
> If you have successfuly downloaded those packages, then create a
> workarounds/ directory under your rootfs working directory and copy the
> binary packages there.

I tried this part too, but I think that part of the instructions seem
a little confusing or misleading; without the binary-only packages,
the make_rootimage.sh command fails when dpkg hits the missing
dependancies (and what's even worse, it seems to delete everything
under the actual contents of the rootfs from the rootstrap image).

Dave