On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:42:04PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Aleksandr Koltsoff wrote: > > > On Thursday 27 October 2005 10:45, Ferenc Szekely wrote: > > > ext Timo Savola wrote: > > > > How about providing Debian packages (i386 and powerpc) of the flasher? > > > yes, it is the license that prohibits us to distribute the tool in a > > > debian repo. we could place the deb packages to the same place, but it > > > does not help much, i guess. > > > > How about placing the deb packages somewhere where people download the SDK > > from? Should probably be a separate directory with a README that would note > > that the deb is not meant to be installed within SDK env. It would help > > though. > > > > Other possibility is making a separate deb repo for tools that one would > > find > > useful when developing on debian, but since flasher is the only tool at the > > moment, that might be an overkill. > > > > ak. > > I think that Timo wanted a debian repo that could have been put to a > sources.list and installed with apt-get. Single debian package that would > be downloaded via web page and installed to host with dpkg (after > click-through license agreement) is IMHO quite pointles because then it > would require one step more to use the flasher. > > On the other hand if at install phase license agreement would be enough to > satisfy legal issues it could be provided by debian repo. Then if user > disagrees with the license installing would fail or something. I'm not > sure that this would satisfy legal issues but would be doable from > technical point of view. Of course using dpkg-deb to package would mean > that user can access the binary without accepting the license ;)
Actually, I wanted none of those things. I want a Debian package that shows up in the dpkg database (with proper version information) so that I don't have any unaccounted-for files installed on my system. Downloading a file using a browser and installing it with dpkg is as easy than adding a line to sources.list, updating and installing. (I suspect that the flasher isn't going to be updated very often.) (If such a package would be provided, then the name of the executable and the package should be something more Nokia/OSSO/Maemo/770-specific than "flasher.") timo _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
