Fri, 15 Sep 2006
Announce: bdist_maemo disutils package released
Hmmm, where did that come from? Somehow the Python ar file creation script and the mkdeb shell scripts turned into a distribution packaging command bdist_maemo for distutils. The command produces .deb files suitable for installation with the Nokia 770/Maemo Application Installer.
The command is a pure-Python implementation and requires no external tools (i.e. no ar, tar, gzip, perl, debhelper or dpkg-dev installation is needed). It includes a generic .deb package file class which could be used for generic .deb file creation but I've only tested it with the Nokia 770 Application Installer.
It's a first cut that "works for me" and is under-documented but does include an example Python script and example_setup.py packaging script. After unzipping bdist-maemo-0.1.0.zip run python example_setup.py bdist_maemo. If it works for you (or not) I'd appreciate you letting me know.
I've opened a ticket in the Maemo Bugzilla for adding bdist_maemo to the pymaemo distribution as the result of a request on IRC #maemo.
Posted at: 08:50 | category: /maemo | Comments ()