[PC-BSD Dev] Automated PBI creation

[Kris Moore]

Glad you found it :)

One of the reasons the creator needs some kind of X interface active is 
because its written in QT, which needs an X session of some sort to 
enable its widgets. We have an automated PBI build server I'm hosting 
here, running on PC-BSD which allows the creator to run as root, and 
still connect to the client X session to do its thing.

If you want, I can arrange access to it, and maybe you can do some of 
your tests on it. If you have any questions about the format 
specifically, let me know, since I wrote it :)


-- 

Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
http://www.pcbsd.com


John Hixson wrote:
> Ok,
> 
> I managed to find the subversion repository for the PBI creation tools 
> =). I am reviewing the code currently to understand how it works.
> 
> - John
> 
> 
> John Hixson wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have been working on hacking the FreeBSD ports tree to allow easy PBI 
>> creation via a "pbi" target. The idea goes something like this:
>>
>> cd /usr/ports/audio/amarok; make pbi;
>>
>> simple enough ?
>>
>> I have gotten quite far with this. Currently the pbi target pulls only 
>> dependencies that are listed as dependencies (and its dependencies... 
>> and so on) and makes packages of them, copies them into a "pbi" 
>> directory and extracts them.
>>
>> This is about where I am stuck and need some more info. I am currently 
>> going by the onlamp PBI creation tutorial as well as some poking around 
>> currently PBI files. I have downloaded the PBICreator tool but am not 
>> having luck running it from the command line. It still tries to connect 
>> to an X server and bails out if it can't find one.
>>
>> I am completely new to PBI creation and could use some more details on 
>> the format if they are available. So far, I haven't found much. Is the 
>> source code for PBICreator available ?
>>
>> Any constructive criticism on the direction I am taking? =)
>>
>>
>> - John
>>
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