[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

[From: Niels Breet]

> Niels Breet wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> - Maemo 5 PR1.2 will ship with Extras enabled by default but will use
>> distribution: fremantle-1.2
>> - 'older' devices will continue to fetch from distribution: fremantle
>> - Autobuilder will be updated when PR1.2 is released and promotion will
>> only happen to fremantle-1.2
>>
>
> Sorry if I'm a little late to this discussion, but if we're creating a
> new distribution/repository which means there will be problems with
> existing install files, wouldn't it be easier just to hack apt-* on PR1.2
> so that it looks for a new fremantle-1.2 distribution for the Extras
> repository when the distribution is called Extras/fremantle?
>
The Application manager will be changed to use fremantle-1.2 as default
distribution.

> It's not going to be nice hacking apt-get, but surely this would be much
> easier than hacking changes into numerous services so that they detect the
> firmware version downloading the file in order that the correct install
> file can be served up.
>

By setting the default distribution, we don't need to do any detection.

> In addition, if I back up my Extras/fremantle catalogue prior to
> reflashing with PR1.2, will PR1.2 then automatically replace
> Extras/fremantle with Extras/fremantle-1.2 after I restore all my
> catalogues? If it doesn't, my device may have both Extras/fremantle and
> Extras/fremantle-1.2 in it's source list, or the former may
> overwrite/replace the latter, so is this likely to be a problem? Most
> likely yes, as I then run the risk of downloading incompatible Qt4.5 apps
> from Extras/fremantle.
>
The default 'maemo.org' entry in your catalog list will be changed to use
fremante-1.2 as distribution. When restoring backups the default
repositories will not be overwritten.

All repositories you have added yourself will be restored as normal. But
keep in mind that extras-testing and extras-devel won't change as they are
expected to run the latest.

> If apt-* could be hacked in PR1.2 to special case Extras/fremantle into
> Extras/fremantle-1.2 on the http download, then install files would
> continue to work unchanged, and restored backups would also work
> unchanged.

There seems to be no need to hack apt with current changes.

> In the same way, if an Extras/fremantle-1.3 is required in PR1.3, the
> same hack would be applied to apt-* in PR1.3 and nobody would be any the
> wiser.

Let's hope that is not needed ;)

> Regards
> Neil
>

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster