ext Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> writes: > On 22/07/2010 10:10, Marius Vollmer wrote: >> The Application Manager has been 'optimized' for repositories, and the >> code for dealing with Debian package files has been neglected. Now with >> the Ovi Store using standalone Debian packages, we should finally fix >> that. > > Again, wouldn't it be easier and smarter (at least technically) to fix > ovi store?
Don't know. We are doing this for Harmattan, and it isn't really that easy or fast... > What's the point of (basically) running dpkg -i instead of apt-get > install? If you use apt-get unmodified, you need to provide permanent download URLs for the packages, and my understanding is that the Ovi Store can not provide those _and_ control their accesses. They protect against unauthorized downloads by using random, temporary URLs. Another issue is scalability: we don't want to download the meta data for the whole Ovi Store during apt-get update. For Harmattan, we are putting a "Ovi Store Adaptor" into place which makes the Ovi Store look like a regular repository. The apt-cache search will find your paid packages and you can update them with apt-get upgrade, etc. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
