[maemo-developers] crocodile like build system for maemo chinook source pkgs

[From: Trilok Soni]

Hi Ed,

On Jan 14, 2008 10:33 PM, Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 21:07 +0530, ext Trilok Soni wrote:
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2008 7:11 PM, Trilok Soni <soni.trilok at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Ed,
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 10, 2008 2:24 PM, Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 20:04 +0530, ext Trilok Soni wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > As discussed on the following thread in the scratchbox-users ML, Jussi
> > > > > Hakala suggested
> > > > > that crocodile can be used to automatically build maemo GTK+/X etc
> > > > > debian source packages,
> > > > > but nokia has their own internal scripts to build those packages under
> > > > > scratchbox target. Can
> > > > > Nokia share those scripts like crocodile process?
> > > > >
> > > > For package building we're using sbdmock. You can find its packages and
> > > > sources here: http://www.bifh.org/wiki/sbdmock
> > > >
> > > > Feel free to ask questions if any.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanx for the information. I have download sbdmock package and when I
> > > had tried to install its sbdmock_0.4.0_all.deb package under my
> > > chinook sbox target, it asked me first to install python which I had
> > > done and then I had downloaded
> > > python-minideblib source from the link I have found from bifh.org as
> > > it is also one of the depdendancy.  But as there is not .deb package
> > > for python-minideblib I had tried to build this package using
> > > dpkg-buildpackage and now it is asking for python-central pacakge
> > > which is not available from repository.maemo.org / chinook. Could you
> > > tell me how to proceed on installation of this package under sbox
> > > target and resolve the depedancies?
> > >
> >
> > I have tried to satisfy sbdmock and minideblibs dependancies like python-central
> > python-setuptools under sbox target, but no success, and some of this tools
> > are not directly available from repository.maemo.org chinook. Please
> > help me on how-to
> > setup this sbdmock.
> >
> You shouldn't do that. sbdmock should be installed outside scratchbox.
> It runs scratchbox when needed.
>

Thanx for this info. I have tried to do this outside of sbox, and it
works. Shall we
have sbdmock into svn repo of garage.maemo.org or somewhere else, where
we can submit the patches and track it.

As sbdmock is just builds one package at time, and needs that all
other dependencies
should be available before it builds.

I hope that for creating gtk+/x based rootstrap from scratch with
different toolchain from
the chinook one, it should be possible to just use
maemo-sdk-chinook-arm-rootstrap as to
satisfy recursive header dependencies of packages.

-- 
--Trilok Soni