[maemo-developers] Diablo, do we need a separate repository?

[From: Niels Breet]

On Mon, May 5, 2008 13:58, Rafael Proença wrote:
>> Do we need a separate extras repository for diablo or should we just
>> add a link to chinook?
>>
>
> My guess is that if you link diablo to chinook what will happen is that
> all the chinook boxes will be upgraded to diablo, which, I think, is not
> ideal and even not compatible even though the binaries are compatible, the
> core system will not be (for example, I heard that the user will not have
> to reflash the device to upgrade the distribution once they have Diablo
> installed).
>

I think I need to clarify that I was talking about the extras repository
here. This is about community created packages in extras.

System packages would be served from a different repository.

> IMO, the compatibility of binary packages is not the only problem here.
> But
> the packages' version and are.
>
> --
> Rafael Proença
> https://launchpad.net/~cypherbios
> http://www.cypherbios.org/blog
> http://www.ubuntu-br.org
>
>
- Niels