Re: [ALL!!] How to submit a COOL new app to your distribution?
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 21:01:52 Risto H. Kurppa wrote: Hi! I know this has been asked before but since it's not clear for everyone who'd like to know it, I ask it once again. If the answers make sense, the info could possibly be added to openmoko wiki on one single page to cover all distros. Let's suppose I've an idea to write the Most Coolest app (app launcher that is controlled by rolling a small metal ball to holes) that I think might interest the users of distributions. -1) What's your distro? 0) How do I set up an development environment to write this app for your distribution? So now that I've written the app, let's suppose your Distribution has people packaging apps for the distro. 1) Who/how do I inform you that there's this nice app you absolutely want in your distribution. Ok, since you might not have people doing the packaging my friend might volunteer to do it. 2) What's the process to create packages (or .bb recipes or whatever needed) to submit it to your distribution? 3) How/who do I inform about new releases? Links to existing instructions are welcome. AFAIK these things are not clear and are really stopping people from developing apps - I've heard someone fighting for days to set up the devel environment because of the lack of instructions how to do it. I'm partly interested in this because of the new application showroom that we're working on to replace opkg.org. The main difference is that it understand the terms 'distribution' - and uses the repositories of the distribution. People wanting to release their app need to be able to release their app in the official repositories but with the lack of instructions it just doesnt' happen. Thanks! r +1 and thank you. I`ve been through the development pages on the wiki a couple of times, and its still not entirely clear to me how everything fits together. I downloaded the toolchain listed on http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Toolchain and im trying to get a simple python hello world built and packaged using bitbake. Im trying bitbake instead of manually running om-make-ipkg since I gather having a .bb file is the way to go. However its not clear to me how I would get an *.pkg from bitbake. Just running bitbake with the .bb file does not seem to work. Any clarification on this issue would greatly be appreciated. Regards, Adolph ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [ALL!!] How to submit a COOL new app to your distribution?
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:08:49AM +0200, Adolph J. Vogel wrote: However its not clear to me how I would get an *.pkg from bitbake. Just running bitbake with the .bb file does not seem to work. Any clarification on this issue would greatly be appreciated. Did you try: 1) bitbake package_name (PN variable from .bb file or filename of .bb file without version _version.bb 2) bitbake -c build -b path_to_bbfile.bb 3) build whole image for device/distro bitbake shr-image (if your package is between dependencies it would be built, if not you can add it to ie recipes/tasks/task-shr.bb) 4) if you build image you will have opk repository in your work dir, or you can use opkg files directly (for me /tmp/gta/deploy/glibc/ipk/ and images in /tmp/gta/deploy/glibc/images/). 5) if you're not building whole image but want to refresh Package.gz files to update neo from you repo, you can use bitbake -c rebuild -b path_to_recipes/recipes/meta/package-index.bb Hope this helps More help http://docs.openembedded.org/usermanual/html/ or whole http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Main_Page Regards -- uin:136542059jid:martin.ja...@gmail.com Jansa Martin sip:jama...@voip.wengo.fr JaMa pgpx7x4aoIHEb.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[ALL!!] How to submit a COOL new app to your distribution?
Hi! I know this has been asked before but since it's not clear for everyone who'd like to know it, I ask it once again. If the answers make sense, the info could possibly be added to openmoko wiki on one single page to cover all distros. Let's suppose I've an idea to write the Most Coolest app (app launcher that is controlled by rolling a small metal ball to holes) that I think might interest the users of distributions. -1) What's your distro? 0) How do I set up an development environment to write this app for your distribution? So now that I've written the app, let's suppose your Distribution has people packaging apps for the distro. 1) Who/how do I inform you that there's this nice app you absolutely want in your distribution. Ok, since you might not have people doing the packaging my friend might volunteer to do it. 2) What's the process to create packages (or .bb recipes or whatever needed) to submit it to your distribution? 3) How/who do I inform about new releases? Links to existing instructions are welcome. AFAIK these things are not clear and are really stopping people from developing apps - I've heard someone fighting for days to set up the devel environment because of the lack of instructions how to do it. I'm partly interested in this because of the new application showroom that we're working on to replace opkg.org. The main difference is that it understand the terms 'distribution' - and uses the repositories of the distribution. People wanting to release their app need to be able to release their app in the official repositories but with the lack of instructions it just doesnt' happen. Thanks! r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
