[maemo-developers] External Repository and HAM

[From: Benoît HERVIER]

>Why wouldn't it?  Do we have a policy against this?
Because noone will test such package. It s already difficult to have
vote for real apps, so imagine for a dummy package :)

>Maybe you need to cripple your last release to get it to
> build and past QA, but maybe that is worth it...
Maybe it s not the reason ...

> Very roughly:
Yep but it s help me a lot ! Thanks !

Best regards,

Le 8 mars 2010 14:42, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> a écrit :
> ext Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net> writes:
>
>> (or even automatically configures your
>>  new repository and package domain, but you didn't hear that from me, and
>>  if you do that, please don't do it silently).
>>
>> Anyway it ll not past QA Testing :)
>
> Why wouldn't it?  Do we have a policy against this?  Ahh, you probably
> mean there is a chicken-and-egg here: you can't upload to Extras anymore
> in any case.  Maybe you need to cripple your last release to get it to
> build and past QA, but maybe that is worth it...
>
>>>create a new "package domain" for it.
>>
>> Have you some explanations on how to do that ? or maybe link ?
>
> I think I'll write something up in the immediate future.  Lucas Maneos
> has done it for Diablo updates, please try to Google that.
>
> Very roughly:
>
>  - create a repository
>  - create a GnuPG keypair and sign the repo with it
>  - create a package that
>   - installs the public key with apt-key add
>   - drops a file into /usr/share/hildon-application-manager/domains/
>     that looks like this:
>
>     <config>
>      <domain>
>       <name>unique-name</name>
>       <key>fingerprint-of-keypair</key>
>       <trust-level>250</trust-level>
>      </domain>
>     </config>
>
>
>  - create a .install file for the package above
>  - tell people to install that .install file.
>
> After this, you can upload packages to the repository and HAM will allow
> them to update packages from Extras.
>



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