[maemo-developers] Autobuilder/SDK dpkg too old to support triggers

[From: Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia sobota, 16 stycznia 2010 o 10:05:28 Andrew Flegg napisał(a):

> The versions of dpkg in play, according to `dpkg --version':
> 
>      Native Ubuntu (Jaunty)             1.14.24ubuntu1
>      N900 (2.2009.51-1)                 1.14.25
>      Scratchbox (Fremantle rootstrap)   1.13.25
> 
> The downlevel version in the SDK means you can't build packages which
> use the features of dpkg on the device.
 
> So, two questions:
> 
>    1) Is there a reason for the older dpkg in the SDK?

Someone forgot to do "apt-get update;apt-get upgrade" after 51.1 got released.
 
> In terms of solutions/workarounds, I can think of a few:
> 
>     ii. Get the SDK fixed so it actually corresponds to the version
>         on the device.

Simple 'apt-get update/upgrade' will give dpkg 1.14.25 in any Fremantle SDK. I 
upgraded that way from version released by Nokia before N900 got into sales to 
42.11 and then to 51.1 release. 

I do not care if someone at nokia say "but you should reinstall sbox each time 
when we release new version" because this sounds like pure bullshit for me. 
Never mind how badly nokia Maemo team broke Debian which was used as base long 
time ago methods from it should work.

Regards, 
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