[Scratchbox-users] What debian source to use in my target?

[Trilok Soni]

Hi Jussi,

On Jan 9, 2008 3:28 PM, Jussi Hakala <jussi.hakala at movial.fi> 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