[maemo-developers] How to resolve network connectivity without using Qt Mobility in Qt?

[From: Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 22/07/2010 10:59, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> ext Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> writes:
(no need to CC: me, I'm subcribed)

>> On 22/07/2010 10:10, Marius Vollmer wrote:
>>> The Application Manager has been 'optimized' for repositories, and the
>>> code for dealing with Debian package files has been neglected.  Now with
>>> the Ovi Store using standalone Debian packages, we should finally fix
>>> that.
>>
>> Again, wouldn't it be easier and smarter (at least technically) to fix
>> ovi store?
> 
> Don't know.  We are doing this for Harmattan, and it isn't really that
> easy or fast...
> 
>> What's the point of (basically) running dpkg -i instead of apt-get
>> install?
> 
> If you use apt-get unmodified, you need to provide permanent download
> URLs for the packages, and my understanding is that the Ovi Store can
> not provide those _and_ control their accesses.  They protect against
> unauthorized downloads by using random, temporary URLs.

That looks over-engineered. Using authenticated https to download
packages should work and fix the various problem using reliable (well,
considering TLS is reliable) ways. Not sure how much the libapt version
in Fremantle supports https, but...
> 
> Another issue is scalability: we don't want to download the meta data
> for the whole Ovi Store during apt-get update.

Well, at least that would mean we could browse Ovi Store from HAM, not
the browser, which is more consistent for user experience, imho. Did you
try pdiffs support, too?

-- 
Yves-Alexis