[maemo-developers] How to to manually package Qt Mobility?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Wednesday 21 July 2010 08:13:27 Marius Vollmer wrote:
> ext Sascha Mäkelä <sascha.makela at gmail.com> writes:
> > OK. If Ovi Store for paid apps is no using a repository, then what about
> > using preinst script or something to install the dependencies?
>
> You unfortunately can't run dpkg recursively and thus can't install
> packages from maintainer scripts.
>
> I have no good ideas, sorry.

It's probably not a good idea but you can work around the issue like the Qt 
smart installer does - omit any non-base firmware dependencies, and use a 
loader. That way the install will succeed, and then via the loader you can 
apt-get/application-manager install whatever you need on the first run of the 
application. It's a horrible hack (and probably breaks a dozen Ovi rules and 
common sense along the way), but it might work.

Regards,
Attila