-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tomas Frydrych wrote: > > Kalle Vahlman wrote: > >> Build environment as in the Maemo and packages as in the existing >> dbus/ dir contents (bad wording, sorry). If you need to port all of >> Maemo to a new pkg management just to use ipkg, well... > > >> Granted, you need to recreate the packages for AI currently too so >> perhaps it's not an issue. > > > In fact, there is very little involved in making a deb package work with > the AI -- if your app is well designed, you basically just need to pass > --prefix=/var/lib/install/wherever_you_want_it to configure, and make > sure to replace any standard system dependencies with the 'maemo' > dependency; there are useful scripts in ApplicationCatalog to help with > this. > > So far in this discussion nobody has been able to demonstrate any > genuine advantage to using ipkg over dpkg on the 770.
ipkg resolves dependencies like apt, dpkg can't. regards, Koen > More > significantly, the dpgk is already on the system and maintains a > database of installed applications. It really escapes me what the issue > here is, other than Nokia wanting to keep the system (under /) > completely separate from the applications installed by the AI (under > /var/lib/install) -- unless Nokia changes this policy, there is not much > to be discussed; your packages need work with the AI. > > Tomas > > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Model > Search 2005 - Find the next catwalk superstars - > http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/model-search/ > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDjGykMkyGM64RGpERAvwJAJ4r8XXLlpG7AnApzGqb09X8TJ9S8gCgkAcQ HvTtwoz9iCnCI800xDMKKj8= =4WqI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
