On 04/21/2011 01:16 PM, Luis Araujo wrote:
On 04/21/2011 02:16 AM, Marko Saukko wrote:
OBS doesn't provide means to apply a separate patch for a specific
platform such as N900 only. Only thing you can do is to make
conditions with %ifarch, however in this case this should not be done
because this patch might not work on other ARM based devices well, right?
Yes, that is my main concern, it might not work fine with other armv7l
devices, though we are seriously considering this solution for Meego
Core 1.2 if we don't have time to get independent style packages.
I can think of two separate things for this, first is to create
separate VKB style package for N900. Note: With separate package you
would need also to add this package to "Nokia N900 Support" pattern to
get it to the N900 images. Also it might conflict with the existing
packages.
How exactly do we go adding this package to that pattern?
Adding package to the group is quite easy. You need to submit patch to
package-groups git tree and to "nokia-n900-support" pattern.
https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-os-base/package-groups/blobs/master/patterns/meego-nokia-n900-support.xml
However, it is not so simple if the packages conflict between the
default style and n900 style. Lets assume for this example that we have
vkb-style-default and vkb-style-n900 packages. By default the
vkb-style-default is installed in package group X or by dependency of
some package in package group Y, now when mic sees that it puts the
package vkb-style-default to the installed packages list. After it gets
to the nokia-n900-support group it sees the vkb-style-n900 package which
is also put to the installation list which now causes conflict with the
packages and image creation fails.
If vkb package would require vkb-style package for example and there
would be vkb-style-default and vkb-style-n900 package that both provide
the vkb-style the image creation could not decide if neither one of
these are implicitly defined to be installed.
What I mean with this if we would have vkb-style-n900 and
vkb-style-default packages in the MeeGo core repository we would also
need to define which style to use in every image configuration not only
N900, which requires change to multiple package groups instead of the
n900 one only. So you might need to change "meego-moorestown-support",
"meego-oaktrail-support" etc groups as well so that they would prefer
the default.
And second is using the boardname functionality. With boardname you
can know what device this is and you could configure the theme based
on that information.
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/boardname
arm_nokia_rx_51_board_0020
[root@localhost ~]#
For the second one the question is that can you change the theme based
on the boardname value?
I have considered this option too, though this would be a runtime
configuration right?
Yes, this would require pretty much run time configuration. In theory it
is possible to do the decision during package installation time as well,
however the boardname isn't set during the image creation but only after
the first boot so this would not work during package installation time
at the moment at least.
Regards,
Marko
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