[maemo-developers] Howto correctly place data on the memory card?

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Am Montag 22 Juni 2009 schrieb Kimmo Hämäläinen:
>> Use MMC_MOUNTPOINT and INTERNAL_MMC_MOUNTPOINT environment variables,
>> available since Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.  I'm not sure about
>> Scratchbox, since it does not have memory card emulation.
> The scratchbox doesn't have this which is perfectly fine as i'll then just fall
> back to using $HOME.
> 
> But i still have a major problem with this: It doesn't work in the
> debian/postinst script when running the application installer.
> 
> I simply added a call to "env" to my postinst script to be able to see the
> environment bein used in the application installers log. See below the
> log i get on my n810. It seems that the worker thread of the app manager that
> deals with this has been started before the environment was complete.
> So there are no MMC related entries at all which makes this useless to 
> install data on the memory card.
> 
> So please let me re-phrase my question: How does a postinst script know
> where the memory card is?

I guess the script could get (source) the information
from /etc/osso-af-init/af-defines.sh file?


	- Eero