[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Scratchbox 1.x with scirocco/mistral

[From: Tomi Ollila]

"Kalle Vahlman" <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> writes:

> 2006/11/29, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com>:
>> 2006/11/28, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at guru.guru-group.fi>:
>> > my wishlist to scratchbox developers:
>> >
>> > 1) make this work (or is there something I did wrong ?) (*)
>> > 2) update subversion to at least 1.3 so that svn log --limit=n works.
>>
>> FWIW, you can install self-compiled tools under /host_usr (which is
>> visible in all targets) and add /host_usr/bin to your PATH.

Yes...but I want to keep the changes in /scratchbox/ directory
tree as bare minimum... The requirement (without any hacking) to
add group "sbox" to /etc/groups is disturbing enough ;)

(I'd like to just tar my /scratchbox and move to other machine,
 extract it there and start using... but I understand there is
 no point spending expensive development time doing that)

> Actually it is in your PATH already, but the scratchbox version is
> found first (so reorganizing the search order is neccessary). You
> could also use the SBOX_REDIRECT_* variables I guess (see
> /scratchbox/doc/variables.txt for more info).

ay!. editing bash config files (again). I've so far managed well with

$ HOME=/home/$USER DISPLAY=:2 PAGER=less LANGUAGE=en_GB /scratchbox/login

(with scratchbox 1.x setting HOME is not necessary :D)

I just want to do as little changes to the system as possible
(and installation notes short) so that there is easy and robust
way to repeat everything again when need arises (for me or someone
else). I once had "broken" scratchbox environment which compiled
software fine but the binaries just did not work. 

I'll keep running subversion out of scratchbox for command options
it does not handle -- but keep suggesting its upgrade whenever
there is suitable moment to do so.


> Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi

Tomi