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[Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have been looking at the porting guide. I know Ubuntu Touch is already
ported to the Nexus 5. Looking at the wiki -
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/porting-new-device/
- and scrolling down to the section on lunch I see that hammerhead is an
option (Nexus 5 device). So I would select option 11. Is it safe to assume
that boot and recovery won't change from my current Nexus 5 build, and all
I'm really building is a new system image? Would I skip the Enabling a New
Device and Device Specific Changes sections as there is already a build for
hammerhead?

Reading further down on the Building section, it talks about push to your
device using rootstock-ng and does a wget:

bzr branch lp:project-rootstock-ng [rootsock_trunk_path]
ROOTFS="utopic-preinstalled-touch-armhf.tar.gz"
wget -c "http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled/current/$ROOTFS";
-O "$OUT/$ROOTFS"

I don't see stable, rc or rc-proposed on cdimage. If I wanted to stay
within vivid vervet, would I do a wget from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/vivid/daily-preinstalled/current/vivid-preinstalled-touch-armhf.tar.gz
and change the ROOTFS to "vivid-preinstalled-touch-armhf.tar.gz"?

And where the bzr branch statement above shows [rootsock trunk_path] -
would that be my local path on my Ubuntu laptop where I install the tools?


Or are all the steps above overdoing it, and all I really need to do is use
boot my nexus into recovery, then use rootfs to push the
vivid-preinstalled-touch-armhf.tar.gz to my Nexus 5?

Bruce

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks. I appreciate the answer. My take-away from this is that if I want
> to play with convergence on my N5, I should not expect it to be done by
> someone else on their time and their dime.
>
> I think its time for some steep learning! But it should be achievable as
> 15.04 r23 works on the N5 - with code current to late August, as did the
> daily builds up to r336 a few days ago.
>
> Bruce
> (on my snazzy Nexus 5 running Ubuntu Touch 15.04)
>
>
> On Monday, November 2, 2015, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > The Nexus 5 is not an officially supported device. There are no official
> > "OTA N" updates for it. As you said, the image server in question is
> > managed by a single person, and it is provided as a convenience, not as
> > a means of creating a level of support that appears to be official.
> >
> > I'm not sure what issue you're having exactly, but any issues specific
> > to the Nexus 5 are unlikely to be fixed by newer image builds.
> >
>