[guardian-dev] lildebi status: the script builds Debian on a CM phone!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 19, 2011, at 12:28 AM, Kevin Galligan wrote:

> Sorry.  Got sidetracked.
>
> Had to tweak a bit.  Will stabilize some of the stuff tomorrow.  Right
> now it all runs in an Activity, but its a very long process and should
> probably be moved to a background service, with the front end
> occasionally polling for updates to print out.  Also need to move
> source into a more appropriate directory.

Yes, definitely needs a background, long-lived Remote Service.  As for  
the source tree, it needs a clean up for sure.  I'll sort out my stuff  
once I get your updates.

> However, it runs 'create-debian-setup.sh' on the device and appears to
> work, although mine locked up mid-install.  Not sure if there's an
> issue or if it was just a weird fluke.  It did work when I manually
> ran it from the command line.

I'll check it out.

> One thing right off the bat.  It looks like the script uses tar.  It
> would be better to create a zip package and unpack that in Java.  Some
> phones don't have tar included.  I'm testing this on a cyanogen build,
> just to make sure I don't run into other issues while setting up the
> app.

My plan now is to include a minimal busybox binary that includes all  
the needed UNIX utils (something like ar, wget, bunzip2, mke2fs...).   
I think we won't need tar or zip in the end, but just in case, do you  
know a Android-native way to call the unzip method from a sh script?

.hc


>
> -Kevin
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
> > wrote:
>>
>> Hey Kevin,
>>
>> Any luck with this?  If you ran out of time, I am happy to take  
>> your code
>> and finish integrating it.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> First, I only ran this on CyanogenMod, I don't think it'll work on  
>>> plain
>>> Android just yet.  Here's how I ran things:
>>>
>>> on my computer after attaching the phone via USB:
>>>  cd lildebi/scripts
>>>  ./push-app-payload.sh
>>>  adb shell
>>>  cd /data/lildebi
>>>  ./create-debian-setup.sh
>>> (wait a long time as everything downloads and builds)
>>>  cd /data/lildebi
>>>  ./start-debian.sh
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Kevin Galligan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you have a step by step list of instructions?  I copied the  
>>>> files
>>>> over and tried to run the sh scripts, but I'm not sure if I have  
>>>> the
>>>> correct directory structure and whatnot.  Rather than trying to
>>>> reverse engineer it, I figure you have that info handy.
>>>>
>>>> -Kevin
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's the relevant info:
>>>>>
>>>>> scripts/push-app-payload.sh
>>>>>      This uploads stuff to the phone to simulate what would be
>>>>>      included in the app itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> scripts/create-debian-setup.sh
>>>>>      This does the whole shebang, the relevant variables like
>>>>>      mnt, imagename, imagesize, repo, and distro should probably
>>>>>      be settable via cmd line arguments, but aren't yet
>>>>>
>>>>> scripts/remove-debian-setup.sh
>>>>>      This should remove all traces of what create-debian- 
>>>>> setup.sh did
>>>>>
>>>>> scripts/start-debian.sh
>>>>>      semi-functional script for starting a Debian session once
>>>>>      everything is installed and setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> .hc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Kevin Galligan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll take a look at it tonight and slam it in.  See how it goes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So last night I ironed out the last glitches on the lildebi  
>>>>>>> scripting
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> porting, and have twice created a working Debian install by just
>>>>>>> running
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> script. It creates the disk image on the SD Card, formats it  
>>>>>>> ext2,
>>>>>>> mounts
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> loopback, and runs debootstrap on it to create the Debian  
>>>>>>> install.  I
>>>>>>> also
>>>>>>> have a rough script for starting a Debian session from the  
>>>>>>> Terminal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kevin, I'm ready to plug it into the GUI, and it sounded like  
>>>>>>> you had
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> code ready for me to try.  Here's the git repo, the layout is  
>>>>>>> a bit
>>>>>>> messy
>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>> the moment, I'll clean it up soon.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/guardianproject/lildebi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We took a quick vote on name variations and agreed on  
>>>>>>> 'lildebi', hope
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> works for people.  I think its both cute and geeky enough.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .hc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                         kill your television
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> “We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> "[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own
>>> government." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> "[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own
>> government." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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