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[Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:51:27PM +0000, John McAleely wrote:
> On 17/01/14 17:04, Oliver Grawert wrote:> hi,
> > Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 16:47 +0000 schrieb John McAleely:
> >> I think that is a genie we would rather not let out of the bottle. As
> >> you note, there are already 7 cases where device specifics are needed. I
> >> assume that as we gain more devices, that number will grow, even if we
> >> also act to add generic abstractions into the common parts to manage
> >> those device specifics.

> > well, as you can see from the discussion none of these 7 files *need* to
> > be in the rootfs tarball ... the bluetooth one should be chipset

> Understood & agreed. I think I'm surprised that we are adding stuff to
> the android tarball in any of these cases, rather than building in
> some sort of Ubuntu device specific tarball/image/partition/deb.

> I think that most of these will be examples of Ubuntu choosing to use
> a different userland stack to Android, and asking the Android tarball
> to carry device configs for those sits oddly with me.

To clarify, what we're talking about here is the android source package, not
the android tarball per se.  The android package in Ubuntu is the point
where we gather up the contents for the recovery and boot partitions, and
the loopback filesystem used for the container, all of which are currently
android based.  But we don't necessarily need to add these configs to an
android tree in order to have them included in the correct partitions.  If
it's preferable, we could certainly have them live in the lxc-android-config
source package, and have that spit out a binary package which the android
source depends on when it builds its images.  (But then you still have the
two-stage build process to contend with, which involves rebuilding the
android package anyway, at least until we start dealing with non-android
devices.)

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