Depot Packages

[Nobody III]

I have gotten my depot repository setup on github, and created a pull
request that adds it to the available sources. Could you please merge it?

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Norman Feske <norman.feske at ...1...>
wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> thanks for your interest in Genode's depot tools! :-)
>
> On 02.06.2017 19:50, Nobody III wrote:
> > The new depot packaging system is great, but the current set of
> > available packages is rather limited, especially when it comes to binary
> > packages. I'd like this to change, and I'd be happy to be involved, but
> > I don't know what to do, so could someone please answer the following
> > questions:
> >
> > Are there plans to provide a complete set of pre-built packages
> > (including for x86_64) to the online repo?
>
> yes. But we have to start somewhere. Right now, the few prebuilt
> packages are mere examples that accompany the documentation. This will
> of course change soon, once the depot enters our regular work flow.
>
> The depot is deliberately structured in a way that everyone (e.g., you
> and me) may assert the role of a distributor. So in principle you can
> put a complete set of binary archives online without involving Genode
> Labs at all.
>
> > How do I make my own repo publicly available? I have built most of the
> > packages myself, and have published them locally, but I need to upload
> > them. Can I get my own packages hosted on depot.genode.org
> > <http://depot.genode.org>,? If not, can you suggest where else I should
> > publish them?
>
> Your public/ directory can be uploaded to whichever hosting service you
> like best, e.g., using rsync or a similar tool. We (Genode Labs) won't
> offer hosting services. Hence, depot.genode.org will be reserved for the
> official archives, and as a playground for a few of the core developers.
>
> That said, we may - if you like - add your download location and public
> key to the depot of the official Genode source tree so that users can
> fetch archives from you without any configuration needed.
>
> > How should I go about writing depot recipes for various ports (e.g. qt5)?
>
> Qt5 is the most difficult port because we need to come up with a good
> idea for storing the ABIs of those libraries (which are incredibly
> huge). We will address this soon. I would recommend you to start with
> recipes for simpler software, e.g., the components of the genode-world
> repository.
>
> The best approach is to pick an interesting run script and replace the
> components (in the 'build' and 'build_boot_image' commands) step-by-step
> by depot content (adding depot content to the 'import_from_depot'
> command). This is what I did for the 'wm.run' script. It gives you
> immediate satisfaction as the run script gets simpler and simpler with
> each step. Recipes are created almost like a side effect.
>
> Please open an issue before starting to work on a particular part - just
> to avoid others working on the same topic in parallel. When creating
> recipes for libraries, you will need to create ABIs for such libraries.
> Here, the tool/abi_symbols utility becomes handy. It creates a symbols
> file out of a shared object. However, you will still need to manually
> inspect and possibly curate the result.
>
> As for how to create recipes, please take the existing ones as examples.
> There are already over 80 recipes available in the source tree.
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>
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