[maemo-developers] Developing for all IT platforms

[From: Neil Jerram]

Santtu Lakkala <inz at inz.fi> writes:

> I have targets for mistral/2.0 (to support mistral, scirocco and
> gregale), bora/3.0 (to support bora 3.0, 3.1, 3.2) and now chinook-beta
> to support the upcoming N810. I then compile packages first on mistral
> and see if they work on bora -- if they don't, rebuild with bora...

Thanks; together with your recent blog post that contains the details
of how to set this up, that is exactly what I was looking for.

> I didn't find documentation for chinook .install files, but reading the
> source, I got the following:
>
> ----8<----8<----8<----
> [install]
> package = <package to be installed>
> catalogues = <comma separated list of repositories for the package>
>
> [<repository1>]
> name = <repository name>
> uri = <base uri>
> dist = <dist name>
> components = <components>
> ----8<----8<----8<----
>
> Of course the .install file can still include the repo_name, repo_deb
> and repo_deb_3. For example, mh-shot-tool install file currently looks
> like this:
>
> ----8<----8<----8<----
> [install]
> repo_name = maemo-hackers
> catalogues = maemo-hackers-chinook
> repo_deb = deb http://maemo-hackers.org/apt mistral main
> repo_deb_3 = deb http://maemo-hackers.org/apt bora main
> package = mh-shot-tool
>
> [maemo-hackers-chinook]
> name=Maemo Hackers for chinook
> uri=http://maemo-hackers.org/apt
> dist=chinook
> components=main
> ----8<----8<----8<----

Fantastic, thanks.

     Neil