{"id":6174,"date":"2013-01-16T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/BlaBla\/Active,_images_and_devices"},"modified":"2013-01-16T14:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:46:10","slug":"active_images_and_devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/active_images_and_devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Active, images and devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I wrote<\/a> before, we are trying to make PA4 as stable as possible, and as well as it was noted by some people, this involves also having images for a wide variety of devices.<\/p>\n

What I’m doing, is kindof even another step: making the image creation<\/em> as easy as possible, so that is possible for people to contribute easily in the creatoin process of those images, (especially images for previously unsupported devices).<\/p>\n

In Mer, that is the base of Plasma Active the OS images are created from an instruction file called kickstart. you can find a source repository that creates<\/em> kickstart files for plasma active here:<\/p>\n

git clone git:\/\/anongit.kde.org\/plasma-active-kickstart.git<\/pre>\n
Then, what you have to do is installing a Mer SDK, following the instructions here<\/a>. This is very easy, is more or less uncompressing a tarball and running a shell script inside it, and should work on any distribution.<\/p>\n
Then, from inside the SDK chroot environment, go where you downloaded the git repo (your home is accessible from there) and do:<\/p>\n
mer-kickstarter -e . -c latest-devel\/plasma-active-latest-devel.yaml -o plasma-active-latest-ks\/<\/pre>\n
it will create a kickstart for each of the supported devices in the plasma-active-latest-ks\/ subdirectory, then:<\/p>\n
\ncd plasma-active-latest-ks\/\nsudo mic create livecd plasma-active-i586.ks -o . --pkgmgr=yum --arch=i686 --logfile=plasma-active-build.log\n<\/pre>\n
And an iso file with the same name as the kickstart file will be created. Different devices may need different image format, such as “raw” instead of “livecd”<\/p>\n
Right now just a few devices are supported there, what I want to achieve is to support there all the device types Active has been successfully ran on.<\/p>\n
One thing I must say, the code in that repo is derived from the Nemo project (another Qt based project built on top of Mer) so also a better sharing of bits and pieces for device adaptations with Nemo would be awesome as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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