How to build a fso-based distribution

[Shilin Yu]

Dear All,

    I want to build a fso-based distribution for my freerunner and want to do some developments.

    Where can I find some building instructions for some distribution which is based fso framework?

    I found that there are a link to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, Is this instruction is valid now? should I follow this page to build?

    

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[Al Johnson]

On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> Dear All,
>     I want to build a fso-based distribution for my freerunner and want to
> do some developments.
>     Where can I find some building instructions for some distribution which
> is based fso framework?
>     I found that there are a link to
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, Is this instruction is valid
> now? should I follow this page to build?

FSO no longer make a distro, but it is used in several others. The closest to
the old FSO distro would be SHR which also uses OpenEmbedded. The instructions
at [1] give a quick start guide, but it may be better to use shr-unstable
instead of shr-testing as it suggests. You should look at some OpenEmbedded
and/or bitbake tutorials for more information on how the build system works.

You could also use Debian, which is uses as a basis for the Hackable1 and
QtMoko distros, or OpenWRT [3]

[1] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Building SHR
[2] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki
[3] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWRT#Build_custom_image

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[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer-2]

To add up on that, if you're going for an OE-based distribution, there are
task recipes for convenience, such as "task-fso-compliance" and "task-fso2-
compliance", which are virtual packages, depending on the actual packages to
make a distribution FSO(2)-compliant.

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[Shilin Yu]

Thanks Johnson!

I think I should follow your suggestions to build a shr-unstable version.

Do you know which is the main distribution being developed by OpenMoko ?

In fact, I want to following their steps to develop.

2009/10/7 Al Johnson <[hidden email]>

On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> Dear All,
>     I want to build a fso-based distribution for my freerunner and want to
> do some developments.
>     Where can I find some building instructions for some distribution which
> is based fso framework?
>     I found that there are a link to
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, Is this instruction is valid
> now? should I follow this page to build?

FSO no longer make a distro, but it is used in several others. The closest to
the old FSO distro would be SHR which also uses OpenEmbedded. The instructions
at [1] give a quick start guide, but it may be better to use shr-unstable
instead of shr-testing as it suggests. You should look at some OpenEmbedded
and/or bitbake tutorials for more information on how the build system works.

You could also use Debian, which is uses as a basis for the Hackable1 and
QtMoko distros, or OpenWRT [3]

[1] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Building SHR
[2] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki
[3] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWRT#Build_custom_image

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[Al Johnson]

Openmoko aren't developing a distro any more.

On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:

> Thanks Johnson!I think I should follow your suggestions to build a
> shr-unstable version.
> Do you know which is the main distribution being developed by OpenMoko ?
> In fact, I want to following their steps to develop.
>
> 2009/10/7 Al Johnson <[hidden email]>
>
> > On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >     I want to build a fso-based distribution for my freerunner and want
> >
> > to
> >
> > > do some developments.
> > >     Where can I find some building instructions for some distribution
> >
> > which
> >
> > > is based fso framework?
> > >     I found that there are a link to
> > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, Is this instruction is
> > > valid now? should I follow this page to build?
> >
> > FSO no longer make a distro, but it is used in several others. The
> > closest to
> > the old FSO distro would be SHR which also uses OpenEmbedded. The
> > instructions
> > at [1] give a quick start guide, but it may be better to use shr-unstable
> > instead of shr-testing as it suggests. You should look at some
> > OpenEmbedded and/or bitbake tutorials for more information on how the
> > build system works.
> >
> > You could also use Debian, which is uses as a basis for the Hackable1 and
> > QtMoko distros, or OpenWRT [3]
> >
> > [1] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Building SHR
> > [2] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki
> > [3] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWRT#Build_custom_image
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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[Shilin Yu]

So SHR should be the best choice for me, right?

I am building the image now, and got some errors which complain "Not a git repository", and the log is as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

git fetch git://gitorious.org/webkit-efl/webkit-efl.git master failed with signal 128, output:

fatal: Not a git repository

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I can access the http://://gitorious.org/webkit-efl/ and browse the source tree of it.

Do you know how to solve this?

Thanks!

2009/10/7 Al Johnson <[hidden email]>

Openmoko aren't developing a distro any more.

On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> Thanks Johnson!I think I should follow your suggestions to build a
> shr-unstable version.
> Do you know which is the main distribution being developed by OpenMoko ?
> In fact, I want to following their steps to develop.
>
> 2009/10/7 Al Johnson <[hidden email]>
>
> > On Wednesday 07 October 2009, Shilin Yu wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >     I want to build a fso-based distribution for my freerunner and want
> >
> > to
> >
> > > do some developments.
> > >     Where can I find some building instructions for some distribution
> >
> > which
> >
> > > is based fso framework?
> > >     I found that there are a link to
> > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Building_FSO, Is this instruction is
> > > valid now? should I follow this page to build?
> >
> > FSO no longer make a distro, but it is used in several others. The
> > closest to
> > the old FSO distro would be SHR which also uses OpenEmbedded. The
> > instructions
> > at [1] give a quick start guide, but it may be better to use shr-unstable
> > instead of shr-testing as it suggests. You should look at some
> > OpenEmbedded and/or bitbake tutorials for more information on how the
> > build system works.
> >
> > You could also use Debian, which is uses as a basis for the Hackable1 and
> > QtMoko distros, or OpenWRT [3]
> >
> > [1] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Building SHR
> > [2] http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki
> > [3] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenWRT#Build_custom_image
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > devel mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>

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[Nicola Mfb]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Shilin Yu <[hidden email]> wrote:
> So SHR should be the best choice for me, right?
> I am building the image now, and got some errors which complain "Not a git
> repository", and the log is as follows:
[...]

In general shr-unstable is "live" and many packages are in AUTOREV,
this means that time to time the build process breaks.
Is some sort of sanesrc-rev supported?

    Nicola

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[Shilin Yu]

> Is some sort of sanesrc-rev supported?

What is "sanesrc-rev"?

2009/10/7 Nicola Mfb <[hidden email]>

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Shilin Yu <[hidden email]> wrote:
> So SHR should be the best choice for me, right?
> I am building the image now, and got some errors which complain "Not a git
> repository", and the log is as follows:

[...]

In general shr-unstable is "live" and many packages are in AUTOREV,
this means that time to time the build process breaks.
Is some sort of sanesrc-rev supported?

   Nicola

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[Nicola Mfb]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Shilin Yu <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Is some sort of sanesrc-rev supported?
> What is "sanesrc-rev"?

Is a way to "freeze" software to well known and well working versions,
this may help you in the git fetch problem you posted too.

In general, if any of the upstream git host are down it's not easy to
use bitbake.

Regards

    Nicola

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