FBReader and Maemo Diablo

[rab...@gmail.com]

The .install for FBReader current has a blank distribution field,
which defaults to the current distribution in Maemo, for Diablo users,
this is "diablo". Unfortunately, FBReader's repository does not have a
Diablo entry, meaning users have to edit this field to read "chinook"
to get the repository to work.

This is a difficult task for new users, and is preventing a lot of
people from installing FBReader under Diablo. There are a few possible
solutions to this, fix the .install to read "chinook", fix the
repository to include a "diablo" distribution, or (the correct and
most helpful solution), upload FBReader and its dependencies to Maemo
Extras (http://extras-cauldron.garage.maemo.org/HOWTO.html) so we can
do away with having a single repository just for FBReader and users
with new devices will be able to install FBReader right off.

Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

[MishaS]

On Jun 25, 10:03 pm, rabe...@gmail.com wrote:
> The .install for FBReader current has a blank distribution field,
> which defaults to the current distribution in Maemo, for Diablo users,
> this is "diablo". Unfortunately, FBReader's repository does not have a
> Diablo entry, meaning users have to edit this field to read "chinook"
> to get the repository to work.

Thanks for pointing that out.

> This is a difficult task for new users, and is preventing a lot of
> people from installing FBReader under Diablo. There are a few possible
> solutions to this, fix the .install to read "chinook", fix the
> repository to include a "diablo" distribution, or (the correct and
> most helpful solution), upload FBReader and its dependencies to Maemo
> Extras (http://extras-cauldron.garage.maemo.org/HOWTO.html) so we can
> do away with having a single repository just for FBReader and users
> with new devices will be able to install FBReader right off.

I made a quick fix (a symlink from 'diablo' to 'chinook'), but I
can't test it right now. I'd appreciate if you could tell if it works
out.

The reason why we did not upload FBReader to 'extras' repositories was
quite simple: it was impossible to see download statistics. Now the
situation is different and we are going to check it out to see if it
suits our needs.

--
Misha

[rab...@gmail.com]

On Jun 25, 4:48 pm, MishaS <mikhail.sobo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 10:03 pm, rabe...@gmail.com wrote:
> > This is a difficult task for new users, and is preventing a lot of
> > people from installing FBReader under Diablo. There are a few possible
> > solutions to this, fix the .install to read "chinook", fix the
> > repository to include a "diablo" distribution, or (the correct and
> > most helpful solution), upload FBReader and its dependencies to Maemo
> > Extras (http://extras-cauldron.garage.maemo.org/HOWTO.html) so we can
> > do away with having a single repository just for FBReader and users
> > with new devices will be able to install FBReader right off.
>

> The reason why we did not upload FBReader to 'extras' repositories was
> quite simple: it was impossible to see download statistics.  Now the
> situation is different and we are going to check it out to see if it
> suits our needs.
>

Any progress here? Extras has really been picking up lately, and it'd
be nice to get everything possible in there.

[MishaS]

No, not really. We will probably try to do something with the next
version of FBReader. Sorry, no ETA for it at the moment.

--
Misha

[rab...@gmail.com]

Any progress? For some reason you have a newer version of bzip2 than
ships with the system included in your repository, and it's screwing
with some people's SSU upgrades. . . .

[MishaS]

On Aug 20, 7:17 am, rabe...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jul 17, 5:30 pm, MishaS <mikhail.sobo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > No, not really.  We will probably try to do something with the next
> > version of FBReader.  Sorry, no ETA for it at the moment.
>
> Any progress?

As I mentioned, we will start using extras with the next release and
no ETA for it is available. :((

> For some reason you have a newer version of bzip2 than
> ships with the system included in your repository, and it's screwing
> with some people's SSU upgrades. . . .

I investigated the problem a bit and could not find the reason for
this failure :(( The problem strongly suggests we should separate the
repositories, however as with the next release we will start using
extras, the problem should go away...

--
Misha

[MishaS]

On Jun 25, 10:03 pm, rabe...@gmail.com wrote:

> Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

Thanks for your persistance, the FBReader is now available from Diablo
extras repository :)

--
Misha