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[Andre-K]

When trying do download a linux package from http://wiki.openpilo...tware Downloads  - I discovered you need somebody to make package for Linux.
I can do that, but where do I find the software/source, and maybe somebody even have some basic instructions on how-to ?
Then I should be able to make .deb packages.

[metRo_]

You have here some info: http://forums.openpi...g-gcs-on-linux/

[Ivan]

Hes my attempt at a deb so far http://forums.openpi...bian-packaging/

[K Wells]

I should have posted this here;

K Wells, on 12 November 2011 - 02:22 PM, said:

I found this tool...I do not have the knowledge to use it but, it may assist a coder in building the Linux package

http://code.google.com/p/pkgcreator/

David J, on 12 November 2011 - 02:29 PM, said:

I spent some time looking at that - you have to really understand the make process before getting to grips with it.

[DrewF]

Is .deb the way to go? I would think rpm or pkg with a few instructions would be more cross platform than deb as its a Debian only installer.  Or is the plan to have more than one installer platform type?  

I can help test installers as I have VM's for rhels, suse, Ubuntu, and Solaris.  I just don't know how to package for Linux.  Guess I should learn since I know how to package for windows. lol

[David J]

It seems that it's not too hard to create an rpm package from a deb one... according to the literature, anyway!

[naiiawah]

David J, on 12 November 2011 - 06:41 PM, said:

It seems that it's not too hard to create an rpm package from a deb one... according to the literature, anyway!

I've been working on and off on building up a .deb package build system for GCS for a while now.  Between real life work and some GCS enhancement work recently, the .deb stuff was sort of back burnered for a bit, but I'm back on it now.  I've already PM'ed Dankers about it, but busy as he is, he may not have seen my most recent message yet, and an earlier one on this was probably lost in the noise of the other conversation's main subject.

I'm a long time Linux kernel dev, so Linux is very familiar to me.  But, when it comes to .deb packages, it is new territory for me and I'm having to learn as I go.  As you mention, conceptually, building a .deb is fairly easy.  Unfortunately due to the complexity of how GCS gets built, it is making the .deb process troublesome.

I'm running into an issue with one of GCS' self built libraries trying to find another of its self built libs.  As the package tools are building packages, they try to build up the dependencies map for the package.  It seems the internal search path that libExtensionSystem gets built with for searching for libAggregation has a "strangeness" to it.  I'm guessing that the strangeness has been added for the sake of either Windoz or Mac OS/x, but for Linux it is probably a bug in the generation of libExtensionSystem.

I've been trying to chase down how to handle it, but no success so far.  Still hammering away though.

[Andre-K]

naiiawah, on 12 November 2011 - 08:15 PM, said:

As you mention, conceptually, building a .deb is fairly easy.  Unfortunately due to the complexity of how GCS gets built, it is making the .deb process troublesome.

being far less experienced, other than using Linux at work+home - I guess that's what caused my "simple" process of making .deb to end with a package containing several hundred MB's (or 1GB) - at least that's the problem I've never overcome - way too much got included because the automagic process thought it was needed.

[IceWind]

Why not use instead BitRock installer for QT, as It's cross distribution compatible.
For whatever package type choose (.deb, .rpm, .tgz or even ebuild's ) it will never be cross distribution compatible
and despite the existing package converters it's always much more prone to fail.

As the OpenPilot project is a open source project, it can apply for a open source license from BitRock.

[dankers]

Bitrock looks very good, well worth us evaluating that, thank you. I had no idea is existed.

[PT_Dreamer]

Looks really nice http://installbuilde...e-licenses.html

edit: and also has a nice "updater" feature witch will help create a GCS auto update.

[osnwt]

IceWind, on 13 November 2011 - 02:18 AM, said:

Why not use instead BitRock installer for QT, as It's cross distribution compatible.

Because we can't redistribute the install system itself which will be licensed to the project only.
But I think that It conflicts with the goal of having whole project open so everyone can build all including installers and packages.