[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] repository.maemo.org working?

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Collin R. Mulliner" <collin at betaversion.net> writes:

> whats up with the repository(.maemo.org), is it working? I never got a
> clean package update from either maemo2.0rc16 or mistral-beta (both
> section free).

They work fine for me.  These repositories are, however, only really
useable with apt-get on the command line.  They don't contain user
packages (except osso-xterm, I think) and thus when you look at them
with the Application manager, they will appear empty (except maybe for
osso-xterm).

> I tried to download files directly to install them "from file" but
> the package manager complains. Packages are not installable.

That's for the same reason: the packages are likely not 'user'
packages and the Application manager refuses to install them because
they are not "compatible".  The "Log" should explain the situation a
bit better.

> Is that stuff supposed to work? Is there a list of repositories? If
> not maybe there should be one.

We hope that there will not be too many repositories.  There will be a
"contrib" repository on garage.maemo.org and we hope that most people
will put their packages there.