On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 08:26:56PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > So now we can install stuff from OPKG (ssh to your phone and then copy > the link from opkg.org and then opkg install > http://www.opkg.org/asdasdasdasdasd.ipk) or from the community repo > (opkg install asdasdasd) > > At the moment I don't see these connected. On Freerunner I can't see > me going to okpg.org to search for new cool software and then click > the link on the mobile browser to download the file and then use CLI > or some graphical installer tool (is there any around?). I don't even > know if the browsers support downloading.. > > I think it's great that opkg.org gives the applications more > visibility: user doesn't have to see previous releases, number of svn > revisions for this release and so on. Find the software you want, > click and install is what's needed. > > So to make this useful on Freerunner (not only desktop) > > we need a web browser that's able to open .ipk links with an installer > or > the .ipk files in opkg.org are useless and people install stuff from > community repos (unless there will be an opkg repository) > > What do you think?
If you want "viruses" sure, yeah, go ahead :) The packages would better be installable only if signed by a key the user has installed himself (by default, of course, OM's repo key should be included). Like Debian and Fedora do, for instance... Rui -- Today is Setting Orange, the 66th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community