Packaging with Amith and TheEvilPhoenix

Amith kk

17:24

@TheEvilPhoenix How do i 'Invite' you in launchpad?

The Evil Phoenix

@Amithkk define "invite" me

Amith kk

Allowing you to acess and modifiy my PPA's

The Evil Phoenix

are they your own personal ones?

or part of a team's?

Amith kk

Personal :D

how can i change it to "Team"

The Evil Phoenix

lemme ask the launchpad pros on their IRC channel

oh change it to team?

you cant

you'd need to create a team yourself

and then create a PPA

and add me to that team

but lemme ask the LP pros

George Edison

17:33

@Amithkk: You had a question?

(About JetHTTP or something...)

Amith kk

@GeorgeEdison Can i get a custom versuon for JetHTTP?

George Edison

@Amithkk What do you need?

The Evil Phoenix

@Amithkk you can theoretically give me write access, but that would be done via shared PGP keys

according t o the lp pros

@GeorgeEdison he's trying to create an instant-installer of XBMC

or w/e the thing is called

Amith kk

@GeorgeEdison Something like a PHP Web server that runs each time XBMC is started

@TheEvilPhoenix XBOCI

George Edison

@Amithkk JetHTTP does support PHP.

The Evil Phoenix

17:35

whatever >.>

Amith kk

@GeorgeEdison I need a custom version that i can stick in my PPA

The Evil Phoenix

@Amithkk you're better off creating a team and then adding me to the team

then my PGP keys will be useable

George Edison

@Amithkk: I still don't get it...

...you want to stick it in your PPA?

Amith kk

@GeorgeEdison Yes

The Evil Phoenix

@GeorgeEdison he wants a copy to fix the inter-ppa dependencies issue

which i said is not a polite thing to have

George Edison

17:39

I see.

The Evil Phoenix

and also

if you're going to stick @George's stuff in your PPA, you might run into problems.

George Edison

Are you using the GUI or console version?

Amith kk

Ah.. Maybe a a team

The Evil Phoenix

having said that, I can't work with your PPA because shared PGP keys are evil :P

Amith kk

@GeorgeEdison None still

George Edison

17:39

@Amithkk: Which one do you want to use?

Amith kk

@TheEvilPhoenix launchpad.net/~amithswebblogteam

The Evil Phoenix

@Amithkk you able to make a PPA?

create a PPA on the team and we can all write to it

Amith kk

Done!

The Evil Phoenix

so wait @Amithkk, what do you want the .deb to do, place the xbmc files somewhere?

if that's the case i can write that

if there's an install procedure

it might be more tricky

jrg

@TheEvilPhoenix @Amithkk Perhaps you want to move to another room? :)

The Evil Phoenix

17:44

icanhasowner @jrg?

jrg

hangon hangon.

The Evil Phoenix

i've moved there :P

Amith kk

Innedztobeownertoo @jrg

The Evil Phoenix

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jrg has added Amith kk to the list of this room's owners.

Amith kk

17:45

@MarcoCeppi Teh messages have to be moved!

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jrg has added The Evil Phoenix to the list of this room's owners.

The Evil Phoenix

indeed they do

many many messages :P

jrg

Happy? ;)

The Evil Phoenix

@GeorgeEdison could move them too :P

Amith kk

Yep

Now

The Evil Phoenix

17:45

yep

Marco Ceppi

NOt sure which to move

jrg

Nothing personal, just figured you guys needed a separate room. :)

Marco Ceppi

Just all?

Amith kk

We need to invite @George

The Evil Phoenix

@Marco all the ones relating to @Amithkk's packaging project

perhhaps @Amithkk can provide you a list of links

i gave him a link

George Edison

17:47

Hello!

Amith kk

Hello

now were talking

jrg

Odd. I can't give @GeorgeEdison ownership.

The Evil Phoenix

@jrg he has auto ownership

George Edison

I can :P

The Evil Phoenix

as a mod

George Edison

17:48

It doesn't matter... I don't need it.

jrg

Oh. Forgot about that. mod powahs

Amith kk

Mods cannot be "appointed"

The Evil Phoenix

he has GOD STATUS on the chat :P

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anyways. :p

jrg

Alright, I'll leave you guys alone. Have fun. ;)

George Edison

So what can I help with?

Marco Ceppi

17:49

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Amith kk

@GeorgeEdison Now i was trying to use Apache but itll be too much for such a small thing

George Edison

Right - I'm glad you've decided to give JetHTTP a go.

It's not perfect, but it's small and compact.

Amith kk

So.. I hoped that you will be able to get me a JetHTPP Made for this purpose

George Edison

Well, I'll help you decide between the GUI and console versions.

The Evil Phoenix

now we'd have to kinda work jointly, @GeorgeEdison

George Edison

17:50

What features do you need?

Amith kk

In short:

The Evil Phoenix

@GeorgeEdison @Amithkk would want it packaged for his PPA, I'd have to package XBMC

Amith kk

forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=40958

The Evil Phoenix

which i have nfc how to set up

:/

Amith kk

@TheEvilPhoenix Just i need to get permission from Team XBMC

then you can make a Metapackage

The Evil Phoenix

17:51

once you get that we can continue

George Edison

So it looks like that application needs PHP.

The Evil Phoenix

there's no xbmc package in the standard repos

i checked

Amith kk

?

They anit replying

The Evil Phoenix

@Amithkk when packaging, you need to assume that the user won't have custom PPAs other than yours

George Edison

I have to be honest with you upfront: JetHTTP's PHP support has been tested to a small extent and isn't guaranteed to work perfectly...

....just so you're aware.

The Evil Phoenix

17:53

@Amithkk as such all dependencies must be either in standard repos or in your PPA

@GeorgeEdison :P I run apache2, lighttpd, and nginx, so bleh

Amith kk

Im seeing to that

The Evil Phoenix

apache2 locally on this machine

for testing of stuff

lighttpd and nginx on other systems/servers

Amith kk

So lightttpd would work?

The Evil Phoenix

cba to configure it

apache2 and its php modules work ootb

lighttpd and nginx both require a tad of config to make php work

George Edison

So what do you need help with now?

Copying the package to a PPA?

Amith kk

17:54

@GeorgeEdison Yes

and creating a metapacage

George Edison

I can do that for you.

The Evil Phoenix

i can create the metapackage :P

Amith kk

O.o

The Evil Phoenix

if we absolutely have to

Amith kk

:D

George Edison

17:55

Are you using Natty?

Amith kk

@TheEvilPhoenix And Just so you know that HTTP-R doesent work OOTB

@GeorgeEdison Yep

The Evil Phoenix

see i asked this before :P

@Amithkk indeed

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Q: How to create a meta-package that automatically installs other packages?

I'd like to be able to create a package that doesnt contain any code or programs itself, but instead installs other packages that exist in the repositories onto a computer, sort of how the ubuntu-restricted-extras package does?

however you'll have to explain the config process

Amith kk

The config needs to change

George Edison

Done.

It's in your PPA now.

The Evil Phoenix

because it'd be easier to provide the install stuff then have the user modify the config manually

George Edison

17:57

(Hopefully that's the right version... I have several.)

The Evil Phoenix

heh

@Amithkk what config needs to be done to make the thing work?

i ask because that determines the method of packaging

Amith kk

Im doing it

The Evil Phoenix

i.e. the postinst script

ok

Amith kk

@TheEvilPhoenix Nah i just have to modifiy the zip file :d

The Evil Phoenix

:P

modify the files, zip it up, send me the zip

i'll unzip before packaging. then the question is

where do you want the package to install the xbmc files to?

Amith kk

17:59

@TheEvilPhoenix to the root folder of teh webserver

The Evil Phoenix

that varies greatly

Amith kk

127.0.0.1 is localhost right?

The Evil Phoenix

between webservers and configs

Amith kk

@TheEvilPhoenix I mean the root folder of the website (/var/www/ for apache)

The Evil Phoenix

as i said

it varies greatly

you assume its going to run on apache

Amith kk

18:01

I assume itll woek on JetHTTP :D

The Evil Phoenix

lighttpd and nginx don't by default use /var/www/ as their root

well if we force the use of JetHTTP, then ask @George here what the default webserver root is

but usually packages shouldn't write to /var/www usually

i can make it write there, but meh

Amith kk

Uploading

The Evil Phoenix

@GeorgeEdison what's the default webserver root for JetHTTP?

Amith kk

@TheEvilPhoenix dl.dropbox.com/u/18789194/XBMC_HTTP-R_v0.4%20UbuntuConfig.zip

@TheEvilPhoenix Hell i forgot one thing.. XBMC needs to turn on its internal webservir

The Evil Phoenix

heh

well

i'm still writing up the dependencies list

i.e. php5 >=5.2.0-1ubuntu1, php5-gd >=5.2.0-1ubuntu1, etc.

because that goes into the control file for Depends: for the package

George Edison

18:10

@TheEvilPhoenix /var/www

The Evil Phoenix

@GeorgeEdison OK.

@Amithkk are we going to use JetHTTP?

George Edison

Actually for the GUI version, you can change it in the preferences menu.

The Evil Phoenix

or Apache?

Amith kk

Yep

The Evil Phoenix

@GeorgeEdison we just need the default location

@Amithkk yep to what?

JetHTTP?

Amith kk

18:11

yep to JetHTTP

George Edison

@TheEvilPhoenix I think it's ~/htdocs... but I can't exactly remember...

Lemme check.

The Evil Phoenix

ok

Amith kk

I still cant seem to figure out where XBMC puts its HTTP confing

The Evil Phoenix

and also remember i need their confirmation that you're allowed to do this :P

Amith kk

Yeah :P

Gotta sleep

Alright?

The Evil Phoenix

18:15

i'll also need the XBMC team to give me the copyright info about their project

so that i can include that in the .deb's copyright file

yeah, go sleep. bug me tomorrow.

George Edison

I can confirm it's /var/www.

Amith kk

Can we continue tomorrow :?

George Edison

Sure.

See you later.

The Evil Phoenix

ugh

George Edison

I think I'll head out too.

The Evil Phoenix

18:16

packaging is a pain sometimes

George Edison

Sorry :)

The Evil Phoenix

see ya

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Packaging with Amith and TheEvilPhoenix