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This is a proposal how community firmware images as mentioned in [[Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution]] could be done in practice
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This is a proposal how community firmware images as mentioned in [[Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution]] could be done in practice.
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Permissions needed from Nokia to maemo.org:
Permissions needed from Nokia to maemo.org:
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Requirements on maemo.org:
Requirements on maemo.org:
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* Interface to distribute files through EULA acceptance and MAC validation
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* QEMU-ARM instance modelled on http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/
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* QEMU-ARMEL instance modelled on http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/ with wget, python installed
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* This virtual machine will through a script, with following input:
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* https://code.launchpad.net/~mer-committers/m-r/restricted-nokia-image-maker (a tool that based on a config.py makes a image with restricted debs installed)
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** A tar.gz with a Mer rootfs
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** A list of packages L (with exact URL to Diablo update repositories), along with an URL to optional patch to be run with 'bash'
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* Do the following:
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** Download each package X into directory nokia-closed/ with patching script P listed in L
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*** mkdir -p package-X/DEBIAN
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*** dpkg-deb -x package-X-deb-file package-X
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*** dpkg-deb -e package-X-deb-file package-X/DEBIAN
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*** cd package-X
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*** execute patch script P if exists
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*** cd ..
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*** dpkg-deb --build nokia-closed-patched/package-X-deb-file package-X
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** tar pzxf the tar.gz into mer-rootfs
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** in mer-rootfs, temporarily move /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d to /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.REAL and /sbin/start-stop-daemon to /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL, and ln -s /bin/true /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d /sbin/start-stop-daemon
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** export LC_ALL=C
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** copy nokia-closed-patched/ into mer-rootfs/nokia-closed-patched
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** for each package X
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*** chroot nokia-closed-patched dpkg -i /nokia-closed-patched/package-X-deb-file
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** remove mer-rootfs/nokia-closed-patched directory
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** remove mer-rootfs/usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d , mer-rootfs/sbin/start-stop-daemon
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** mv /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL /sbin/start-stop-daemon
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** mv /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.REAL /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
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** tar.gz up mer-rootfs (without mer-rootfs prefix), and make accessible behind a EULA from maemo.org to worthy MAC addresses.

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