User:Jebba/Package Building HOWTO
[edit] Package Building HOWTO
Here's how to build a "standard" ./configuresque package for Maemo 5, using "foo" as an example. This is a command line application...
[edit] Environment
First set up your initial environment in the scratchbox to save future keystrokes. This only has to be set up once.
# log in to development/SDK server: ssh -C flauta.freemoe.org # Enter scratchbox /scratchbox/login # Set up your full name for debianization (enter your name, not mine!): echo 'export DEBFULLNAME="Jeff Moe"' >> ~/.bashrc # Set up email address for debianization (enter your email, not mine!): echo 'export DEBEMAIL="moe@blagblagblag.org"' >> ~/.bashrc # Re-read bashrc to drag in above: . ~/.bashrc # Check that all looks cool: echo $DEBEMAIL ; echo $DEBFULLNAME
[edit] Package Setup
Now do the actual creation of the package:
# Set up some dirs for workingspace: mkdir -p ~/foo/freemoe # go there cd ~/foo/freemoe # grab source from upstream wget http://foo.googlecode.com/files/foo-1.2.3.tar.bz2 # Untar the source tar jxf foo-1.2.3.tar.bz2 # Upstream doesn't have .gz in this case, \ # so re-tar because the version of debhelper in Maemo 5 doesn't support .bz2 (!) tar zcf foo-1.2.3.tar.gz foo-1.2.3 # Enter source dir cd foo-1.2.3 # Check WTF the LICENSE is less COPYING # Initial setup of package dh_make --single \ --copyright gpl \ --file ../foo-1.2.3.tar.gz # Set up for maemo-optification: echo auto > debian/optify
[edit] debian/control
debian/control defines info about the package that is read in such places as the application installer.
- Don't put libraries and other non-user packages in the user section!
- In the Description:, lines MUST be preceded by a space. Blank lines must have a space and then a period.
- Check this to find a valid Section:
- Figuring out Build-Depends: is currently left as an exercise for the reader. Hints:
fakeroot apt-get update fakeroot apt-cache search bar fakeroot apt-get install bar
Here is a sample debian/control:
Source: foo
Section: user/multimedia
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Jeff Moe <moe@blagblagblag.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, maemo-optify
Standards-Version: 3.7.2
Package: foo
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
XB-Maemo-Display-Name: Foo Package Name in the App Manager
XB-Maemo-Display-Name-pl_PL: Polish translation of the name in the App Manager
XB-Description: Foo does everything you want.
Foo does everything. It is fantastic.
.
Be sure to explore all of Foo, especially the clone x-fade tool.
.
There is so much to Foo!
XB-Description-pl_PL: Polish translation of the description
XB-Maemo-Upgrade-Description: upgrade description shows up in place of the standard one when a user updates a package
XB-Maemo-Upgrade-Description-pl_PL: Polish translation of the description
XSBC-Bugtracker: Mandatory field if you want to enter Extras, put bugtracker URL here.
XB-Maemo-Icon-26:
Put a base64 encoded 48x48px image here.
This means "uuencode -m icon.png icon.png > icon.png.en", then paste the
output here, but do not forget to put a white space at the beginning of each line containing the icon-encoded text.
[edit] debian/changelog
Edit changelog:
dch -i
Edit debian/changelog to read:
foo (1.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release for Maemo 5 (Nokia N900). -- Jeff Moe <moe@blagblagblag.org> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:00:02 -0300
[edit] Build Binary X86 Package
Now you're ready to actually build the package. This may help you find out what the Build-Depends: are as well.
[edit] X86
Now see if it works in x86:
# Switch to X86 sb-conf select FREMANTLE_X86 # Go to the correct dir: cd ~/foo/freemoe/foo-1.2.3 # Compile! dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc
[edit] Optify .deb
If that all went cool, "optify" the package (am I doing this right?--I was doing it differently before, but this was recommended by upstream and is how the Maemo builder box does it):
# Go to correct dir cd ~/foo/freemoe # Optify X86 package: maemo-optify-deb foo_1.2.3-1_i386.deb # Optify non-binary package (if any): maemo-optify-deb foo_1.2.3-1_all.deb # Or if you have a bunch of packages and you're lazy, just for i in *.deb do echo $i maemo-optify-deb $i done # Check optification results: dpkg -c foo_1.2.3-1_i386.deb
[edit] Test in scratchbox
You can test your package in the scratchbox:
# Install in scratchbox fakeroot dpkg -i foo_1.2.3-1_i386.deb # Run it! foo
[edit] Build Binary ARMEL Package
Now you're ready to actually build the package that will run on the phone.
[edit] ARMEL
# Switch to ARMEL sb-conf select FREMANTLE_ARMEL # Go to the correct dir: cd ~/foo/freemoe/foo-1.2.3 # Compile! dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc
[edit] Optify .deb
If that all went cool, "optify" the package (am I doing this right?--I was doing it differently before, but this was recommended by upstream and is how the Maemo builder box does it):
# Go to correct dir cd ~/foo/freemoe # Optify ARMEL package: maemo-optify-deb foo_1.2.3-1_armel.deb # Optify non-binary package (if any): maemo-optify-deb foo_1.2.3-1_all.deb # Or if you have a bunch of packages and you're lazy, just for i in *.deb do echo $i maemo-optify-deb $i done # Check optification results: dpkg -c foo_1.2.3-1_armel.deb
[edit] Build Source Package
Build a source package for uploading to builder (I'm not 100% this is the optimal command, but worksforme).
# cd to dir cd ~/foo/freemoe/foo-1.2.3 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -S -uc -us -sa
[edit] Put Package in Personal Repository
Now that it's all built and cool, copy the file over to your N900. I put it in my own repo and install it with apt on my N900. You don't have to set up a repo to do all this, but it's nice
# Exit from scratchbox logout # Create source dir on web server: mkdir -p /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/source/foo_1.2.3-1 # Create binary dirs on web server: mkdir -p /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/binary-armel mkdir -p /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386 # Copy over orig tarball: cp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*.diff.orig.tar.gz \ /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/source/foo_1.2.3-1/ # Copy over diff: cp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*.diff.gz \ /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/source/foo_1.2.3-1/ # Copy over dsc: cp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*.dsc \ /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/source/foo_1.2.3-1/ # Copy over changes: cp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*.changes \ /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/source/foo_1.2.3-1/ # Copy over ARMEL binary: cp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*_armel.deb \ /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/binary-armel/ # Copy over X86 binary: cp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*_i386.deb \ /var/www/users/jebba/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ # Regenerate repository headers: cd /var/www/users/jebba/ # Binary ARMEL Packages dpkg-scanpackages dists/unstable/main/binary-armel /dev/null \ | gzip -9c > dists/unstable/main/binary-armel/Packages.gz # Binary X86 Packages dpkg-scanpackages dists/unstable/main/binary-i386 /dev/null \ | gzip -9c > dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz # Source Packages dpkg-scansources dists/unstable/main/source /dev/null \ | gzip -9c > dists/unstable/main/source/Sources.gz
[edit] Install Package
Install the sucker.
[edit] Testing via manual copying
If you don't have your own personal repository, do something like this, where 10.0.0.2 is the IP address of your N900:
# copy file to N900 scp -p /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe/*_armel.deb \ 10.0.0.2:MyDocs/ # ssh into N900 ssh user@10.0.0.2 # Install .deb sudo gainroot dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/foo_1.2.3-1_armel.deb
[edit] Testing via personal repo
If you have your own repo, enable it, ala:
# edit sources to enable personal repo: sudo gainroot vim /etc/apt/sources.list # In my case, I add the line: deb http://www.freemoe.org/users/jebba unstable main # Update repo apt-get update -o dir::cache=/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache # Install package apt-get install -o dir::cache=/home/user/MyDocs/.apt-archive-cache foo
[edit] Test Package
Now time to actually test it. Just run it :)
foo
Also helpful commands, like:
dpkg -I foo dpkg -l foo dpkg -l | grep foo dpkg -L foo
[edit] Upload to Builder
If your package works well, time to upload to Maemo's builder to put it in extras-devel. Note, you'll need to have set up an ssh key on garage to do this.
# go to the dir, from outside the scratchbox # (if your ~/.ssh key isn't in the scratchbox) cd /scratchbox/users/jebba/home/jebba/foo/freemoe
Uh, just run this script:
#!/bin/sh echo echo "Uploading:" ls *.tar.gz *.diff.gz *.changes *.dsc echo echo -n "All look ok? ctrl-c to quit " ; read ok echo scp -p *.tar.gz *.diff.gz *.changes *.dsc \ jebba@drop.maemo.org:/var/www/extras-devel/incoming-builder/fremantle/
[edit] Chill
Now just wait for the package to finish. You can repeatedly hit <reload> in your browser, or ctrl-5 here:
[edit] sources.list
Here's a sample sources.list you can use which has a bit more than the defaults:
# This is default upstream, but mirror is much faster # SDK #deb http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/sdk free #deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/sdk free # Tools #deb http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/tools free #deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/tools free # This is default upstream, but mirror is much faster # Extras #deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free #deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free # Extras-Testing #deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ fremantle free #deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ fremantle free # Extras-Devel #deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free #deb-src http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free # This is a local mirror # SDK deb http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/sdk free deb-src http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/sdk free # Tools deb http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/tools free deb-src http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/tools free # This is a local mirror # Extras deb http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free deb-src http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free # Extras-Testing deb http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ fremantle free deb-src http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ fremantle free # Extras-Devel deb http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free deb-src http://espejo.freemoe.org/repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free # good luck with these #deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/apps/ ./ #deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/mr0 ./ # Non-free crap, you need a majick key (substitute 000000) #deb http://repository.maemo.org/ fremantle/00000000000000000000000000000000 nokia-binaries # This is jebba's repo #deb http://www.freemoe.org/users/jebba unstable main #deb-src http://www.freemoe.org/users/jebba unstable main # These are debian repos. Handy to grab source packages if they exist alreay # Etch #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib # Etch Backports #deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib # Stable Lenny #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib # Testing Squeeze #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib # Unstable Sid #deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib # mozilla / firefox / fennec #deb http://moff.mozilla.com/ chinook release #deb-src http://moff.mozilla.com/ chinook release # ubuntu for mer #deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports jaunty main restricted universe multiverse
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