Re: MeeGo support

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 11:45 +0100, Tiago Cogumbreiro wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> I am trying to install NetworkManager in MeeGo. When I
>> run ./autogen.sh I get the following (selected) output:
>>
>>
>> [...]
>> checking for /etc/frugalware-release... no
>> checking for /etc/mandriva-release... no
>> checking for /etc/pardus-release... no
>> ./configure: line 13672: lsb_release: command not found
>> Linux distribution autodetection failed, you must specify the
>> distribution to target using --with-distro=DISTRO
>>
>>
>> How difficult is it to have NetworkManager work on MeeGo? How can I
>> help?
>
> Probably not too difficult as long as Meego has the basic dependencies
> (dbus-glib, policy-kit, libgudev, etc).  That could be the sticking
> point.
>
> The configure stuff you see is largely ignorable, we can easily add some
> new checks to recognize Meego.  There are only a few things that depend
> on the distribution these days, and those usually have sane defaults.
>
> So, what do you have for:
>
> ls /etc/*-release

I think its meego-release, it might still be moblin-release. They
don't have the usual init system, they replaced it with fastinit but I
don't think that would cause a massive issue for NM.

Peter