Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-11-05 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi Luciano I have done some quick tests. If I turn networking off on the development host then a) if all packages specified in the .yaml file are already installed, then the app will build and run with no error. b) if required packages are not yet installed, then the build with exit with

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-11-04 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi Luciano Thank you for your kind words. Your emulator / train issue is an interesting one. I do a lot of my development on a train on the way to and from work, and I am able to build without any problems. Sometimes I will have an iffy network connection over my N9, but mostly not. That

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-11-04 Thread Luciano Montanaro
Thank you very much, that is a good introduction to packaging, and it covers all the stumbling blocks I have encountered with regards to packaging/ deploying/building. One thing that I have discovered is that my QtCreator cannot connect to the emulator if there network interface has no address: Si

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-11-04 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi all As the topic of installing the to the SDK and Emulator is one which has raised many questions in the is mailing list, I have collected the wisdom from replies to this and similar threads, and have created a guide to installing on my Sailfish blog. The post can be found here: http:

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-31 Thread christopher . lamb
Thomas Thank you for helpful answer. I had pretty much understood the benefits of PkgConfig, which is why I was keen to use PkgConfigBR to install packages to the SDK. However thinking more deeply this may not be possible for all packages. If the .pc files that PkgConfig uses are "mainly"

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-30 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi, On Oct 31, 2013, at 7:15 AM, christopher.l...@thurweb.ch wrote: > I can find the names required by PkgBR by kewword searching in the SDK > Control Center, or with zypper se , but how do I "translate" these names > to the format used by PkgConfigBR:? They're installed by the packages' .

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-30 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi Jarko Thanks for your detailed comments. My understanding of this topic has vastly improved. I will be spending most of Friday on a plane, so I should be able to spend some time writing an article on installing to sailfish for my blog. One bit that still eludes me is this: I can find

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-29 Thread Jarko Vihriala
32 PM To: devel@lists.sailfishos.org Subject: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file Hi all Until recently when I needed extra packages on the SDK and Emulator installed using the SDK Control Center (for the SDK) and zypper (for the Emulator). Howeve

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-28 Thread Dmitry
Hi Christopher. .yaml file translated to .spec which is used for building .rpm this translation is done using template engine. Link above briefly describe it. For description of .spec file see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package About you questions, PkgBR will translates to

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-28 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi Dmitry Thanks for your rapid answer. While that is a wonderful list of spectacle keywords, it leaves me none the wiser as to what they do. Chris Zitat von Dmitry : https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Spectacle ___ SailfishOS.org Devel maili

Re: [SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-28 Thread Dmitry
https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Spectacle On 28 October 2013 23:32, wrote: > Hi all > > Until recently when I needed extra packages on the SDK and Emulator > installed using the SDK Control Center (for the SDK) and zypper (for the > Emulator). > > However from previous posts in this forum I ga

[SailfishDevel] Installing packages to the SDK and Emulator via the rpm/yaml file

2013-10-28 Thread christopher . lamb
Hi all Until recently when I needed extra packages on the SDK and Emulator installed using the SDK Control Center (for the SDK) and zypper (for the Emulator). However from previous posts in this forum I gathered that it was also possible to do the same using an app's yaml and spec files,