Thread: mistral? scirocco? who? me?
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2006-12-01 , 14:26
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OK, I'm getting more and more confused now.

I did upgrade to IT 2006-39.14, so according to aflegg I should chose scirocco.

There are two things that make me wonder, though:

On the maemo-developers mailing-list, I read about scirocco (quote shortened):
> Just to be safe... Is this maemo release intended for the scratchbox
> environment only, or is it safe to use scirocco repositories directly on
> the 770? (if you are willing to upgrade)

Officially, maemo releases are intended to be used inside scratchbox.
However, we tried to make it, at least, not crash the device if some one "accidentally" has scirocco repo on device's sources.list.
see this archived mail

I read this as "If you're a normal user, not a developer, don't use scirocco".

The second one is that, as I wrote before, even after the upgrade to IT 2006-39.14 Nokia's own repositories use the "mistral" distribution. (All the others do, too, but it was me who added those, so I can't rely on that.)

First time I find my little friend complicated to deal with.

(@aflegg: It's not that I don't trust you - I hope you see how with these three sources of information conflicting, I must get confused. And above all there's the little child in me who wants to know how his toy works without tearing it apart.)
Last edited by benny1967; 2006-12-01 at 14:30.