[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Building Maemo from scratch

[From: Russell Geldmacher]

> > First question: how do the developers create the binary distributions?
> > If I can find information on how those are generated, perhaps I can
> > adapt that to be configurable for new devices.
> >
> I suggest to take a look at our dev root FS howto:
> http://maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_use_flasher_rootfs.html
> You could perhaps get some ideas from it.

Ah, OK I see what that's doing. I will need to rebuild all of the
packages on the rootfs.packages list.

So then, assuming I have all my packages rebuilt, I can probably
generate a jffs2 for a device by modifying sources.list to point to a
device-specific repository.

The trick is going to be building the packages from source. Is there
something out there for the packages which is analogous to SRPM?

Thanks!

rusty