kickstarts and adaptations

[Maurice de la Ferté]

On 23.02.2013 15:59, Maurice de la Ferté wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 14.01.2013 21:35, Marco Martin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> right now most of the images, x86 and some of the arm ones are created from a
>> series of kickstart files in the plasma-active-kickstart, legacy-kickstarts
>> subdirectory.
>>
>> as the name "legacy" says, there are better ways to do that.
>>
>> I recreated the info for creating images in the form of yaml files, still in
>> the plasma-active-kickstart repo.
>> That's for coherence with Nemo:
>> It has a general yaml file plus one yaml file for each hardware adaptation:
>>
>> in this way it will be possible to produce a kickstart file for each device
>> with a single command, you can try it with:
>>
>> mer-kickstarter -e . -c latest-devel/plasma-active-latest-devel.yaml -o
>> active-latest-ks/
>>
>> as a bonus it uses now all yaml adaptation files from Nemo, gaining support
>> for n900,950,pandaboard and an image optimized for virtual machines (with
>> virtualbox tools and stuff)
>>
>>
>> Since we have now contributions of adaptations to new devices such as the
>> nexus7, it would be cool if everything will go there, so will be possible to
>> better track  what are all the devices where active works, and make easier for
>> people to contribute and build images themselves.
>>
>> It's still not perfect, but i would like to switch the weekly devel images to
>> this asap.
>
> I integrated the legacy kickstart files of Archos gen9 and Nexus7 into
> yaml structure of plasma-active-kickstart maintaining repository. Also
> I added the repo definitions of testing based images, which are still
> using the frozen Mer core '0.20120816.1' dependencies.
>
> The ce/nemo community is building against the always latest mer release
> but we are building on top of a older fixed one for *testing*. This 
> will hit us
> at some point for adaptations we are not building on our own. We should
> ask the nemo maintainers to offer us package repositories which are
> based on the same fixed mer core release. As short term work-around
> I just copied over breaking packages and rebuild them our
> Project:KDE:Mer_Extras:Adaptation:Tegra3:Nexus7 project on
> build.pub.meego.com
>
> Affected repositories are:
>    - ce-adaptation-n900   (http://repo.pub.meego.com)
>    - ce-adaptation-n9xx-common   (http://repo.pub.meego.com)
>    - ce-adaptation-n950-n9   (http://repo.pub.meego.com)
>    - ce-adaptation-pandaboard   (http://repo.pub.meego.com)
>    - nemo-hw-nv-tegra3-common   (http://repo.merproject.org)
>    - nemo-hw-nv-tegra3-nexus7   (http://repo.merproject.org)
>
> git clone  git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-active-kickstart

Sorry I forgot to tell:

This will create all kickstart files with testing repos configured
      mer-kickstarter --config=base.yaml -e latest-testing

This will create all kickstart files with devel repos configured
    mer-kickstarter --config=base.yaml -e latest-devel

Cheers

Maurice
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/active/attachments/20130223/bab9e9f9/attachment.html>