[maemo-developers] Gregale SDK on new website?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On 5/9/07, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> I need to install the gregale SDK (as I still want to build for 770 users
> using IT2006).  But I can't find the rootstrap after the website
> reorganisation.
>
> Before the change I bookmarked the most important page:
> http://maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial.html#Installing-Maemo-rootstrap.
> Unfortunately that page does not exist any more.
>
> I noticed that the Gregale announcement is on the maemo.org home page but the
> links it contains are broken.  So, next, I tried searching for 2.2 in the
> search box -- but that seems to just do a Google search which still contains
> the old links.
>
> After looking around I eventually found
> http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo-2-2--gregale-.html and
> http://maemo.org/development/documentation/tutorials/Maemo_2.2_Tutorial.html.
>
> However, neither page has valid links to the SDK rootstraps!  The
> maemo-2-2-gregale.html page has no link to the rootstraps at all (despite
> having a "quick downloads" section).  The tutorial page claims to have a link
> but it is "site:downloads/download-maemo", which does not work, of course.
>
> So:
>
> 1) How do I find the 2.2 SDK downloads?
here are some hints:
-1 it is not under http://maemo.org/downloads/ (those looks like
downloads for the device)
-2 not under community , that is developer generated content
-3 it's not under development->SDK Releases->Maemo 2.2 'gregale'.
perhaps it is hidden behind the
Internet Tablet OS 2006 sources , but You need to have a valid wlan
address and apparently my nokia 770 is illegal or I can't count to 12
:p. but the site gave me a pointer sine it it hosted under a different
site

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/
there you will find the 3.1 sdk download , and if you look inside the
3.1 install.txt you will
find the url for the manual download of the 3.1 sdk
http://repository.maemo.org/stable/3.1/

now all you need to do is remove the 3.1 from the url and you will get
a list of releases
http://repository.maemo.org/stable/2.2/
this is how you can find the sdk files.

The 2.2. sdk does not have a installer script and the install.txt is
not up-to-date . for example it talks about sbox-config (this was a
pre 1.x sbox command).


So to install you need to read
http://repository.maemo.org/stable/3.1/INSTALL.txt
and replace 3.1 by 2.2 (and some other things but all really easy :P)

What I don't know is if you also need tot perform the following:
"Next you will need to create empty packages which provide the build
   tools provided by scratchbox. This step is necessary to make Debian
   package management system aware that these tools are already available
   and don't need to be installed from repository in order to fulfill" ...

"Note that this step can be automated easily. See the maemo
   installer script for an example." step

perhaps you want to join the effort to create a "self healing" qemu image?
http://box.mmapps.net/~keesj/qemu_maemo_gentoo/


>
> 2) More generally, how do I find anything in the new structure as the search
> only gives the old links?
Yes I have the same problem I don't know , I can't even find a link to the old
wiki . perhaps the 404 page can be replaced to give this
information(link to the old content).

I also did not find the planet rss feed any more

> 3) Are there any plans to fix the broken links?  At least in the Nokia section
> of the website?

I am completely lost

greetings