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Author: . fsmithred
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To: Ozi Traveller
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] devuan-sdk
Yes, I'd like to help. How do I get up to speed on the sdk?

Note: I'm probably going to be slow in responding, because I'm away from
home this week, and using a web browser for email makes me want to kill
someone. But I didn't want you to think I was ignoring you.

-fsr


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Ozi Traveller <ozitraveller@???>
wrote:

> Thanks you Jaromil, I appreciate your effort in the sdk and devuan as a
> whole!
>
> I have see Parazyd's work in advancing the sdk and applaud his efforts
> too!
>
> As part of the refactored buildpackage process, will it be possible to
> bring packages from upstream to stable backports, e.g i3, spacefm, ...?
>
> Ozi
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 May 2016, Ozi Traveller wrote:
>>
>> >    I did a an install and setup up last night in a vm, and I need to
>> install
>> >    a couple of packages that weren't in the instructions: git-core, zsh.

>>
>> ACK. will add those
>>
>> >    I managed to get sdk-init to work, after some fiddling.

>> >
>> >    I did sdk-chroot-arch amd64 which looked successful, but
>> sdk-chroot-build
>> >    failed with errors.

>>
>> I know this part is currently under re-factoring because many things
>> have changed in the past 2 years. This SDK was useful to completely
>> bootstrap Devuan at a time in which our repositories did not
>> exist. Now the situation is far better and I plan to drop some code
>> and functionalities to have a more lean and modular system.
>>
>> in particular the package building part should be refactored to work
>> with git-buildpackage, to optionally import debian packages from
>> alioth and then finally to offer a local repository of built packages
>> for the chroot.
>>
>> I'm planning to do this in the coming months, but cannot provide an
>> exact schedule.
>>
>> >    It would be good, if there was someone who has this working to do a
>> step
>> >    by step to do the setup. Also to do a build too, because the
>> instructions
>> >    aren't clear.

>>
>> you are welcome to propose corrections wherever you think they should
>> be. With exception for the package building part which has to be
>> rewritten.
>>
>> >    If devuan-sdk is the way forward for creating an iso, then I'd like
>> to
>> >    understand it better.

>>
>> it is one of the ways forward and is provided for people wanting to
>> prepare custom isos with custom packages. Please note we have
>> modularised the whole setup so now there is:
>>
>> - devuan-sdk : local chroot and package build (TODO refactor)
>> - vm-sdk : takes any iso (also devuan-sdk) and build various VM images
>> - arm-sdk : takes any iso (also devuan-sdk) and build various ARM images
>>
>> >    In terms of features, will the sdk replace live-build at some stage?

>>
>> I think that will be another module, live-sdk, and will likely be
>> built on top of refracta scripts. Parazyd is investigating this now
>> and proposing to fsmithred some changes to enhance interoperability
>> with our setup, lets see how that goes. I'd like to have fsmithred
>> included in our team to maintain it, but maybe he doesn't want to get
>> involved that much.
>>
>> ciao
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