Hello Julian, hello Petter, Petter Reinholdtsen [2010-04-11 19:36 +0200]: > Sound good. I had a look at the source, and did not find much ubuntu > specific in it. The repository names in jockey/oslib.py need to be > adjusted (restricted/multiverse), for sure, but I did not find any > other Ubuntu specific code (did not check al of the source).
Some details about that: Most of Jockey's code is OS independent. In particular, trunk (bzr branch lp:jockey) does not have any Debian/Ubuntu specifics. Everything which is Linux specific is contained in jockey/oslib.py, which needs to be implemented on a particular distro. trunk has an implementation for Linux and PackageKit, and the test suite ensures that it's working with at least Ubuntu's PackageKit; about a year ago I also got it working on Fedora Core 10. The Ubuntu branch changes jockey/oslib.py to use python-apt and dpkg, since that is quite a bit faster and probably also more reliable than PackageKit. It's probably best if you'd just run the test suite (tests/run) on current Sid and see how far you get. I also have some tests for the GTK/KDE implementations (tests/run-gtk, tests/run-kde); they are a bit brittle, but they should be good enough for a coarse check whether everything is alright with pyqt/pykde. The other distro specific bits are the available handlers in data/handlers/. Some of them are probably alright for Debian (like b43 or sl_modem), but some others will need heavy adaption. In Ubuntu we have quite a complex structure for the nVidia drivers, which is radically different than Debian's. For testing handlers on a machine which doesn't need restricted drivers (or not the one you want to test), I recommend creating a "fake" modalias file in /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/local which maps a kmod/package name to a "match everywhere" glob: -------------------- 8< ------------------- alias pci:* wl bcmwl-kernel-source alias pci:* b43 alias pci:* nvidia nvidia-current alias pci:* nvidia nvidia-173 alias pci:* fglrx xorg-driver-fglrx -------------------- 8< ------------------- These files are evaluated in the LocalKernelModulesDriverDB class. Please let me know if you have trouble with it. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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