[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Playing with osso-application-installer

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Jose Dapena Paz" <jdapena at igalia.com> writes:

> 	But the Red Pill mode exactly offers this option. Mmmm maybe
> adding a HACKING document to osso-application-manager source tree
> with hints like this one would be very intuitive.

Yeah, luckily, I had a suitable text laying around already, so I
dropped it into SVN:

https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/osso-application-installer/HACKING

    Getting started with hacking on the Application Manager
    -------------------------------------------------------

    You need to install the "fakeroot" package in your Scratchbox in
    order to run the Application Manager there.  (It uses fakeroot in
    SB and sudo on the device.)

    You probably also want to set

        assume-connection 1

    in ~/.osso/appinstaller.  Otherwise it will try to use the
    Connectivity APIs that are not present.  Run the AM once and then
    edit the file.

    When building the AM, it will also create a osso-application.run
    executable.  This executable doesn't use maemo-launcher and is
    thus easier to use for debugging.

    If you have changed apt-worker and you want to test it without
    installing it, you can give its location as a parameter to
    osso-application-installer.

    I usually run it like this from .../src/ in Scratchbox:

        run-standalone.sh ./osso-application-installer.run ./apt-worker


Feel free to suggest additions!