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Task:Mer Repository Setup

Mer is back : Please visit http://www.merproject.org to learn more about this news.

As part of the Mer bootstrapping process, a repository at http://repository.maemo.org/community/ will have to be set up.

[edit] Repository layout

• Suite: unstable
• Codename: alpha
• Components: main
• Architectures: i386 armel (all)

(later we will have a stable distribution, and a similar promotion interface to extras one will be used)

[edit] Bootstrapping

• Copying all .dsc and .deb from repository.mer.tspre.org and loading into repository. We get SDK problems if we have to re-compile everything again, and the packages were built natively already.

[edit] Upload possibilities

• Similar interface as to uploading to i386 & armel builder as with extras.
• There should be a specific moderation of invitations to be able to upload to the Mer repositories.
• There should be a possibility to upload self-built packages (source & binary packages), like 'non-free' but directly to 'main', for certain uploaders (kernel-diablo is a specific problem, as it doesn't build cleanly on new SDK with gcc4)

[edit] Builder specifics

• Builders should target both i386 and armel (armv5el, not vfp) (will probably have to be set with CFLAGS)
• Mer has, for armv5el, a scratchbox v1 SDK:
  • Toolchain: http://scratchbox.org/~jhakala/unofficial/scratchbox-toolchain-arm-linux-cs2008q3-72_1.0.8-1_i386.deb
  • Devkit: http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/scratchbox-devkit-mer_1.0.8_i386.deb , debian-etch, cputransp
  • On top of QEMU EABI: (http://maemogeek.blogspot.com/2007/11/installing-qemu-arm-eabi-patch-into.html)
  • sb-conf setup MER-ARMEL --compiler=arm-linux-cs2008q3-72 --devkits=debian-etch:cputransp:mer --cputransp=qemu-arm-eabi -f
  • sb-conf reset -f MER-ARMEL
  • sb-conf select MER-ARMEL
  • sb-conf rootstrap MER-ARMEL http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/mer-armel-rootstrap-v8.tar.gz
  • sb-conf install MER-ARMEL --etc --devkits
• For i386 a following model could work:
  • A tar.gz with debootstrap of a buildd variant (found at http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/mer-i386-rootstrap-v0.tar.gz ) , apt sources may have to be adjusted.
  • chrooting into the unpacked tar.gz, put in source package, grab dependancies, build it natively (pbuilder?)