On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Tony Espy <espy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:espy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 04/28/2014 03:30 PM, Chris Wayne wrote:
Hi guys,
One bit of customization that we have yet to implement is allowing
carriers to have custom APNs setup on the device. I understand that
we're moving towards using the Android DB for this, which would
allow
for OEM customization, but there's no easy way for a carrier to add
their own APNs this way.
The provisioning code you're referring to will land in the next
upload of ofono, probably later this week if all goes well.
The new provisioning logic actually uses both apns-conf.xml ( which
is included in the device tarball ) and mbpi ( which is included as
part of the Ubuntu filesystem ).
The use case for a carrier wanting their own APN database could be
having a special app that they want to allow zero-tariff data
usage for
(e.g. their usage app, or maybe they have a deal with some
site/app that
all data used is free for their customers).
I'm not sure I understand your example. We automatically provision
GPRS contexts for network connnectivity and MMS support. This
provisioning is SIM-specific, and the result is a number of gprs
contexts created ofono's gprs settings file:
in /var/lib/ofono/<ISMI>/gprs
NetworkManger and Nutium both examine these contexts via ofono's
ConnectionManager DBus interface. Eventually, we'll have a settings
UI that will allow direct manipulation of these APNs/gprs contexts.
The only reason I see a carrier replacing our version of
apns-conf.xml is if they've rolled out new APNs and/or have signed
deals with MVNOs and want to ensure that the MVNO APNs are
distributed. Another reason would be to fix incorrect settings in
our db.
I think the MVNO use case is an important one for us to look out for.
The one restriction we would have is that any file/db would have
to live
in /custom. Is this doable?
Why wouldn't you just update the db in the device tarball?
apns-conf.xml currently lives in /system/etc.
The device tarball is supposed to be for device-specific files, not
carrier customizations.
Also re: /custom, from what currently documented on the wiki, it can
only install things in /home/<user>. IMHOP, that's not really the
right place to be installing a system-specific db file.
The custom tarball installs files directly to /custom. It *can* copy
stuff to $HOME, but it certainly would not for this example (I would
expect the db file would be just /custom/apns-conf.xml)
