[maemo-developers] sb2 wishlist

[From: Guillem Jover]

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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:09:52 +0300, Lauri Leukkunen wrote:
> On 4/12/07, Guillem Jover <guillem.jover at nokia.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 03:06:11 +0300, Lauri Leukkunen wrote:
> >> It would be nice if Nokia or some other entity with money or available
> >> resources would sponsor or provide these items for SB2:
> >>
> >> - apt and dpkg support
> >>  - these seem to be quite critical for Maemo usage
> >
> >> Support for apt is there, at least to some extent, thanks to inz, but
> >> dpkg is a bit more tricky.
> >> It'd probably take around a week or two to implement.
> >
> >What do you need from dpkg?
> 
> SB2 needs to know what kind of path mappings dpkg needs to work
> correctly. Currently it fails to install packages. I can't remember
> the exact details at the moment. As Riku suggested, it might be best
> to run apt and dpkg in target emulation mode entirely. That would be a
> bit slower but it would be trivial to get to work and would be
> guaranteed to do the right thing always.

Ah right, I agree with Riku. Also only in dpkg 1.14.0 (svn's trunk) the
remaning perl programs got --admindir support, which might still not
be enough to be able to do cross-installations (which would probably
be the cleanest way to support sb2 in a generic way, and not with
specific hacks), as there's still things not handled properly like
maintainer scripts not inheriting the admindir or similar. Although
proper chrooting might be less troublesome.

regards,
guillem