[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] garage/extras repository for bora?

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

On 1/10/07, Aaron Levinson <alevinsn at aracnet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > I wish I know when we can offer extras for receiving your apps for
> > bora. Some of us at nokia had an idea to setup a automated build
> > system which accepts source uploads only and delivers the binaries for
> > all our releases (mistral, scirocco, bora, etc).
> > For some reason we need to clarify thousand+1 things (mainly legal)
> > before we can offer such service. I had an idea back in December that
> > maybe maemo could finally co-operate with OpenEmbedded and see if we
> > could get the extras packages from their build system. It should be
> > technically possible. I promised to send a mail to Koen and Florian about this
> > "trial", but never got there yet. Perhaps this could kick off the
> > discussion here, on the maemo dev list.
>
> Well, perhaps we can have a temporary solution for the time being and
> discussion on a more permanent solution for the future.  A temporary
> solution could probably just entail adding a new directory to the existing
> extras repository for bora.  I'm not sure about the upload process and
> distinguishing bora packages from mistral packages, but I imagine that
> something can be worked out.
>
The only temp solution I can imagine is to open other upload queues
(like you, Aaron said) where you could upload scirocco and bora
versions. So there will be one upload queue for each maemo release.
This could be done fairly quickly, though people who uploaded to
mistral should change their dput configurations, because the mistral
queue will also change.

It is not nice at all... Imagine if you have an app and have to
compile it with 3 SDKs and upload it 3 times, just to make it
available for everyone. But as for temporary solution.. I don't know.
Tell me your opinions pls.

> Aaron
>
Cheers,
ferenc