[maemo-developers] Fremantle Community SSU

[From: koos vriezen]

2010/11/1 Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh <mohammad7410 at gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone :)
>
> Some of you may have heard back in summer when I announced that I was
> working on an SSU, however, I decided to postpone it till PR1.3's out.

What is SSU?


> Now that it's out, I decided to work on it again. Niels Breet (X-Fade) has
> kindly set up the repository on
> http://repository.maemo.org/community-testing/.
>
> Me and X-Fade have come to a conclusion that instead of faking the Nokia
> meta-package, it would be better to make a new community one
> (mp-fremantle-community-pr).
> Unfortunately, while this might be the right way, it caused me some problems
> with the enabler package, so to work around it, a terminal window is started
> from HAM (postinst) and then the postinst exits, the user then has to exit
> HAM and go back to the terminal window to continue installation.

What is HAM?

Darn, I feel so silly :)


Regards,

Koos Vriezen


> I've yet to make a complete changelog for this repository, however, I can
> confirm that https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10613 is no longer
> reproducible with the new hildon-desktop in the repository, so that's a
> start ;)
> New system packages, all of them are based on the latest gitorious sources.
> hildon-desktop (with Matan's patches) | hildon-home |
> hildon-application-manager | hildon-status-menu | modest (with patches for
> bmo bugs #3700 and #2563)
>
> As per above, community patches are welcome for any of the system packages.
>
> To enable the repository, open
> http://repository.maemo.org/community-testing/community-testing-fremantle.install
> on the N900.
>
> This is not a proper announcement for the SSU, but more of a prerelease
> before it's posted on talk.maemo.org, so please, do not post about this on
> talk.
>
> I'd appreciate any testing, suggestions and bug reports about this SSU,
> before I make a proper announcement about it.
>
> I'd also like to thanks Niels and Lucas Maneos (the Diablo community SSU
> maintainer) for their help in setting this up.
>
> P.S. #maemo-ssu is the SSU's channel on Freenode.
>
> -- Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh
>
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