help building ipk packages

Joseph Reeves iknowjoseph at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 16:11:27 CEST 2008


Not using bb, but this is how I made a small ipk from source:

http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/3

Joseph



2008/9/26 Nicolas Laurance <nlaurance at zindep.com>:
> hi community gurus,
>
> I've done my homework, at least I tried to, reading through the wiki and
> elsewhere
>
> http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1084542
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/BitBake_recipe
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakefile
> http://faassen.n--tree.net/blog/view/weblog/2007/09/26/0
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Customizing_the_Openmoko_Distribution#Adding_Python_scripts_as_applications
> http://handhelds.org/~pb/bitbake.pdf
>
>
> still building a simple package remains a mystery to me
>
> following the instructions of the wiki, regarding the setup of openembed
> the monotone command always fail (at least 6 retries)::
>
> $ mtn --db=OE.mtn pull monotone.openembedded.org org.openembedded.dev
> mtn: doing anonymous pull; use -kKEYNAME if you need authentication
> mtn: connecting to monotone.openembedded.org
> mtn: finding items to synchronize:
> mtn: certificates | keys | revisions
> mtn:       76,060 |   76 |    25,058
> mtn:  bytes in | bytes out | certs in | revs in
> mtn:     1.4 M |     1.3 M |        0 |       0
> mtn:  bytes in | bytes out |    certs in | revs in
> mtn:     3.1 M |     1.4 M | 1,797/4,018 | 441/991
> mtn: error: I/O failure while talking to peer monotone.openembedded.org,
> disconnecting
>
> Time spent in user mode   (CPU seconds) : 3270.584s
> Time spent in kernel mode (CPU seconds) : 49.617s
> Total time                              : 4:22:48.15s
>
> ----
>
> However, MY QUESTION IS :
>
> how can I build an ipk package out of a project source file ??
>
> please, can someone, give a simple example, choosing a running program
> of some kind, of the steps to follow
> the bb recipe and the procedure to produce a small ipk
>
> All I've found is scarecely documented, and is concerning a global image
> for the moko.
>
> many, many thanks
>
> NiL
>
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