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Re: How to build Ubuntu Touch for Nexus 4

 

Thank you very much, I'm gonna dig into that looks very interesting

David


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.03.2014, 10:27 -0400 schrieb David Peter:
>
> > Now there is new things that I need to figure out.
> > You could remark reading the manifest that this building process use
> > pre-built package. So where are the sources and how to build them if
> > you want to change code, or fix things? What is the complete process
> > for modifying code, building a complete system, flash it, and that's
> > it it works. I don't know yet. I should find some spare to time to
> > investigate, figure out properly the whole process and then write a
> > documentation about it.
>
> assuming you write about the non android parts here (teh android HAL
> actually makes up the smallest part of an Ubuntu Phone install), the
> rootfs is assembled from binary packages from the Ubuntu archive.
>
> for people wanting to inspect the build process of this I created the
> rootstock-ng project:
>
> bzr branch lp:project-rootstock-ng ...
>
> there is the rootstock-touch script that will build a rootfs tarball for
> you identical to how the tarballs we consume from [1] for the system
> images are assembled.
>
> additionally there is the rootstock-touch-install script that resembles
> the process that is used to assemble the actual images used on
> system-image.ubuntu.com
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
> [1] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled/current/
>
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