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

[From: Ed Bartosh]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 12:24 +0530, ext Trilok Soni wrote:
> 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.
> 
Good idea, but it's better to ask author about it.
You can find his contact info in the sources.

> As sbdmock is just builds one package at time, and needs that all
> other dependencies
> should be available before it builds.
> 
Yes, they should be available, but it's not mandatory to have them 
installed. sbdmock is clever anough to get all build deps from
repository.

> 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.
> 
It's even a more than needed. You don't need any gtk or x packages in
the rootstrap. Only basic packages like libc, gcc, apt, dpkg are needed
in there.

-- 
Ed Bartosh <eduard.bartosh at nokia.com>
Nokia-M/Helsinki