Hi Jussi, On Jan 9, 2008 3:28 PM, Jussi Hakala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trilok Soni wrote: > > Thanx Jussi for the above explanation of crocodile based scripts. I > > was looking for > > such script which can build debian source packages, particularly maemo > > chinook repository > > source packages automatically. > > Crocodile can be used for this, I've myself built several maemo packages > using crocodile. > > > Do you suggest crocodile is good fit for such tasks? OR do I have > > independently fetch each source pacakge > > and run dpkg-buildpacakge in the order of dependencies - this would be > > very hectic I would say. > > I don't think Nokia is using crocodile internally, they have their own > system. But the packages are nevertheless compiled inside scratchbox > with maemo's toolchain and their combination of devkits selected for the > target. > > So, even using apt-get source and dpkg-buildpackage manually, you should > end up with properly built packages. If you want to avoid manual work, > you can use crocodile :) > > I'd suggest removing files from the patches and the variables > subdirectories in crocodile to avoid applying the debian patches in the > build process, maemo packages don't need them. >
Thanx for the inputs. I will try now to build these maemo packages using crocodile. Do you think anytime Nokia opening up these internal scripts? OR should I ask these on the maemo-developers ML? -- --Trilok Soni _______________________________________________ Scratchbox-users mailing list Scratchbox-users@lists.scratchbox.org http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users
