[maemo-developers] Maemo Matan edition.

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Ryan Abel" <rabelg5 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
>
>> AM only works with Nokia updates. Any community versions needs
>> cooperation from Nokia, direct use of apt-get, or a different front
>> end for apt- get.  Such a front end should support Maemo-Flags (for
>> automatic reboot, for example).
>
> It'll work fine with community updates, the packaging just needs to be
> handled properly.

Yes, there should be no need to fork the Application manager just to
support the community edition.

Look at the nokia-repository package.  Uninstalling it should remove the
Nokia specific configuration bits from your device (catalogues, domains,
and keys).  You can make your own package like it with the community
catalogues, etc.  The nokia-repository package sources are not public,
but it's trivial to 'reverse engineer' and everything you need to know
should be documented anyway with the hildon-application-manager sources.

If the current AM needs to be patched to support the community edition,
or a smooth switch away from the Nokia edition, I'll be happy to accept
those.

(The reason why the AM didn't offer your version of
osso-software-version was probably the 'package domain' system of the
AM: the repository of your package wasn't signed with the right key, so
the osso-software-version package in it got ignored.  There is a
red-pill mode setting to switch this off, of course.)