[maemo-developers] Reboot Cycle

2006-07-27 Thread Peter Kahle
Well, it was inevitable, I got myself into a reboot cycle. Using the no-lifeguard-reset flag seems to bring the system back to a very stable state, though, so I'm wondering if there's a list of programs that should be running that the lifeguard will watch for so I can debug what exactly is fail

Re: [maemo-developers] How to handle packaging for debian-native packages?

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Kahle
Ed Bartosh wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 23:00 -0400, ext Peter Kahle wrote: How are people handling packaging when the upstream already includes a debian directory? On http://wiki.debian.org/Emdebian_Nokia there's mention of using a DEBIAN_DIR environment variable to specify an alte

[maemo-developers] How to handle packaging for debian-native packages?

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Kahle
How are people handling packaging when the upstream already includes a debian directory? On http://wiki.debian.org/Emdebian_Nokia there's mention of using a DEBIAN_DIR environment variable to specify an alternate directory, but it doesn't seem to work for me in scratchbox. Is there anything sp

[maemo-developers] Ideal way to develop a long-running app?

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Kahle
Hi, I'm new to Maemo, and to developing for small/embedded devices in general. I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole concept, especially the 'killable' apps that Maemo enables. I'm trying to figure how long-running but mostly ignored apps like IM clients fit into the whole picture.