[maemo-developers] Two .install file questions

[From: Tony Green]

On Tuesday 05 Feb 2008, Santtu Lakkala wrote:
> Tony Green wrote:
> > https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/osso-application-ins
> >taller/doc/repository.txt (is there something newer? I cant find
> > anything.) gives information about the key names for maemo 2.0 (repo_deb)
> > and 3.0 (rep_deb_3) but not for the latest image.  Am I right in guessing
> > that it should be rep_deb_4?
>
> The documentation is on hildon-app-mgr's pages in garage[1]. The new
> format allows you to have multiple repositories defined in one .install
> file. This has been quite a frequent wish in the past.
>
> [1]: http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/install-stable.html

That's helped me generate a (hopefully) valid install file, but I'm still 
finding that instead of actually trying to install the app, clicking on 
the "Click to install" button is just serving up the file as text. 
Interestingly, on a desktop machine, I see similar behaviour, the old install 
file (from http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2007/apache/) causes my 
browser to ask me what to do with the file, whereas the new install file 
(from http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/apache/) just displays the 
file in the browser, something I'm only used to seeing when the webserver 
isn't serving up the right mimetype.

Any ideas why I should be seeing this behaviour?  It's odd that other OS2008 
install files play properly - is there something else I need to do with mine? 
Or could it be that it's still not right and that's causing the problem? 

Here's what's in the file
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[install]
catalogues = web-brewer.repository
package = httpd

[web-brewer.repository]
name = Ports to Maemo by Tony Green
uri = http://www.web-brewer.co.uk/maemo.repository
components = os2008
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...where os2008 is  a subdirectory of 
http://www.web-brewer.co.uk/maemo.repository (I've had to guess at this, as 
the documentation doesn't seem to say what the components value corresponds 
to)

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Tony Green
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