Distribution

This page describes basic information you needed if you want to contribute to MeeGo. Target audience is community member who wish to involve in MeeGo development.

Contents 1 Package Management and Development 1.1 Overview 1.2 Development with MeeGo OBS account 1.3 Development without MeeGo OBS account 1.4 Packaging 1.5 Process 2 Developer Tools 2.1 Image Creation 2.2 OBS command line 2.3 Spec tool 3 Distribution Infrastructure 4 Software Repo 5 Links

Package Management and Development

Overview

TODO: add a paragraph about the big picture of packaging development process. Two flowcharts: one is how to development with OBS, the other is the workflow of how to development without using OBS.

• MeeGo is using RPM as package end and ZYpper for repo
  • List of MeeGo releases and repos
• MeeGo is using Open Build System (OBS) for building: OBS basic
• Package Management

Development with MeeGo OBS account

• Request a new OBS account
• Login and first steps
• Creating a link and adding a repository
• How to use the command line client for daily operations
• Using OBS chroot for development
• Create image based on new RPM
• Troubleshooting

Development without MeeGo OBS account

• Build and develop packages without OBS
• Example: Recompile kernel
• Create image based on new RPM

Packaging

• Packaging Guidelines
• Application Packaging Tutorial

Process

• Create new package in OBS
• Remove package from OBS
• Commit changes to OBS
• irc / mailing lists / contact

Developer Tools

Image Creation

• MIC2
• MIC2 for Beginners
• Image Configurations & KS files

OBS command line

• Part 1 - initial setup
• Part 2 - checkout & branch
• Part 3 - more commands: localcheckbuild

Spec tool

• Spectacle

Distribution Infrastructure

• Build Infrastructure - OBS
• Release Infrastructure - BOSS

Software Repo

• Create and update repos

Links

• Release Engineering
• Compliance
• Quality