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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Leandro sullo spippolino
<lnoferin@cybervalley.org> wrote:
> Ciao a tutti,
>
> now my apt seems to work fine but doing a
>
> aptitude dist-upgrade
>
> it want's to remove the package in subject
> mp-fremantle-generic-pr
>
> as I can understand it is to get updates from Nokia
> so it is possible/preferable to remove it?

There won't be any more new updates from Nokia, so I don't think it
really matters. If it's a new device/newly flashes I would use upgrade
to get latest packages from Nokia before trying dist-upgrade, just to
be sure you have everything the normal way first.

If you install CSSU* I think it will remove that package anyway. :)

* http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 03:42:06PM +0200, Leandro sullo spippolino wrote:
> now my apt seems to work fine but doing a
>
> aptitude dist-upgrade

Note that dist-upgrade is notorious for breaking the system. Be very
careful with it.

> it want's to remove the package in subject
> mp-fremantle-generic-pr
>
> as I can understand it is to get updates from Nokia
> so it is possible/preferable to remove it?

It is possible. That will prevent you from getting new official
firmware updates over the air.

I wouldn't remove it unless I had a very good reason.

Marius Gedminas
--
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-- Rich Kulawiec

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+maemo@gmail.com> writes:

>> mp-fremantle-generic-pr
>>
>> as I can understand it is to get updates from Nokia
>> so it is possible/preferable to remove it?
>
> There won't be any more new updates from Nokia, so I don't think it
> really matters. If it's a new device/newly flashes I would use upgrade
> to get latest packages from Nokia before trying dist-upgrade, just to
> be sure you have everything the normal way first.

It is not a fresh install, I am using it more than an year.

> If you install CSSU* I think it will remove that package anyway. :)
>
> * http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU

Do you think CSSU is a good choice? I use N900 daily like computer and
phone.

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Leandro sullo sgorbio
<lnoferin@cybervalley.org> wrote:
> Do you think CSSU is a good choice? I use N900 daily like computer and
> phone.

I've been using CSSU since the first public testing release, so far I
don't have any major problems. The improved hildon-desktop and fixed
enter-key in Xterm make me happy. :) I've been using experimental
packages already for a long time before that to fix some of those
problems, so having it fed from CSSU makes it a lot easier.

It depends on your comfort level in dealing with that kind of thing.
If you don't want to possibly re-flash and restore from backup then
you should not install it. You probably won't need to, but the risk
exists.
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ext Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+maemo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Leandro sullo spippolino
> <lnoferin@cybervalley.org> wrote:
>> Ciao a tutti,
>>
>> now my apt seems to work fine but doing a
>>
>> aptitude dist-upgrade
>>
>> it want's to remove the package in subject
>> mp-fremantle-generic-pr
>>
>> as I can understand it is to get updates from Nokia
>> so it is possible/preferable to remove it?
>
> There won't be any more new updates from Nokia, so I don't think it
> really matters.

The mp-fremantle-generic-pr is also meant to keep your OS configuration
together: As long as it is installed, you have all the packages that are
supposed to be installed. If you remove it, you might more easily turn
your device into mush by accidentally removing some really important
packages by later on.
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