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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:50:22AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 10:44 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> > building the android package takes around 1h and requires you to
> > download a ~250MB source package, building lxc-android-config takes 2
> > minutes and requires you to download 25KB and it allows you to use the
> > established merge proposal process via launchpad while changes to the
> > android package have to be made to the phablet.ubuntu.com git tree (not
> > sure if our gerrit instance is already up but up to now the only way to
> > get patches included was by mailing someone who can commit to the git
> > tree (or respectively the ML)... 

> > doing development and testing a change to a device permission locally
> > before uploading is proportionally a lot harder with the android
> > package ... i would like to keep the changes as long as possible in the
> > lxc-android-config package, even if we decide they should live inside
> > the android package at some point ...

> oh, and one thing i forgot, replacing the android side for testing your
> changes locally means to boot the device into the initrd (by modifying
> the kernel cmdline) and dd'ing the three img files to the respective
> partitions ... 

> testing the lxc-android-config package means making the image writable
> and dpkg -i'ing the package ...

There's no reason you need to reboot to recovery to dd over the partition :)

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