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

[Jussi Hakala]

No idea at all, sorry.

But in the core, the build process is the same, whatever you use on top 
of the debian packaging system to automate the build process of several 
packages.

Debian has tools for that kind of automation, too. See pbuilder [1], for 
example.

Regards,

   Jussi

[1] 
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/pbuilder-doc/pbuilder-doc.html#introduction


Trilok Soni wrote:
> 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?
>