xsspark / pedigree-apps

Build scripts and patches for all software ported to Pedigree (http://github.com/jmolloy/pedigree).

pedigree-apps

The purpose for pedigree-apps is mainly to provide a central location for all files and folders relating to ported applications for Pedigree (https://www.pedigree-project.org)

A buildbot (http://build.pedigree-project.org) builds this repository nightly, deploying built packages to the main pup repository at http://pup.pedigree-project.org.

The layout of this repository is as follows:

• packages
  • Package definitions and scripts.
• newpacks
  • Output from builds will go here, under an architecture-specific directory.
• downloads
  • Download cache - delete a file if it exists here to force a redownload for the next build.
• environment.py
  • Standard environment configuration.

Each package contains a single script, package.py, in which hooks are defined for each particular build phase. The package.py also describes additional steps such as the download of the package's source archive, and metadata such as the package name and version (and dependencies).

Builds are performed in a chroot and therefore dependencies should be listed correctly to ensure the necessary headers and libraries for your packages are present at the time of your build.

Getting Started

You'll need the following to make pedigree-apps work:

• Python virtualenv (check for system packages or otherwise pip install virtualenv).
• A working Pedigree installation, that builds in full. This is needed to extract libc and other libraries from the build.
• libfakechroot.so

First-time installation may need to create a file, local_environment.py, alongside environment.py; this might look like:

import functools

from support.util import expand


def modify_environment(env):
    _expand = functools.partial(expand, env)

    env['PEDIGREE_BASE'] = _expand('$HOME/stuff/pedigree')
    env['APPS_BASE'] = _expand('$HOME/stuff/pedigree-apps')

    env['UNPRIVILEGED_UID'] = '10000'
    env['UNPRIVILEGED_GID'] = '10000'

    env['CCACHE_TARGET_DIR'] = '/mnt/ram/ccache'

This is simply overriding the defaults set in environment.py with the correct configuration for your environment.

You will also need a virtualenv:

$ virtualenv venv --system-site-packages

Then, you simply need to:

$ source venv/bin/activate
$ ./buildPackages.sh [target]

[target] can be amd64 or arm, the support for which depends on which architecture your Pedigree build was made for.

This will:

• Install needed Python packages (via pip, in the virtualenv - this doesn't touch your system Python)
• Install pup to the virtualenv for package creation and registration
• Create a build chroot (this step requires sudo elevation)
• Perform the build

The build itself will figure out what to build and build packages. If you have pydot installed, this will emit dependencies.dot which shows the dependencies between packages.

Each built package will have the general form $package-$version.pup and be deposited in pup/package_repo, alongside a packages.pupdb database which stores metadata about packages. The package_repo directory is designed to be able to be published via HTTP and then used as a repository for pup installations.

pup

This repository also contains the main source for the Pedigree UPdater, or pup for short. pup provides a cross-platform way to install packages, and is especially useful for creating disk images for Pedigree cross-builds with.

A utility script, run_pup.sh, is provided to facilitate running pup by hand.

Python tests

Much of pedigree-apps is implemented using custom Python scripts. These can be tested by running ./runtests.sh which will also do a full lint of the Python source code.

SUPPORT

For support with the pedigree-apps repository, add a tracker item at http://www.pedigree-project.org/projects/pedigree-apps or alternatively raise your question in #pedigree on irc.freenode.net.