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[TOOL/KITCHEN] - Android Builder v.5 (Dead)

This project is no longer being updated. Feel free to use the code.
Android Builder (AB v.5)
kiel123 has joined the AB team!
Thanks to dsixda, Armin Coralic, and cteneyck. I do have permission to reuse their code.
Requirements:
Ubuntu Linux or variant
dsixda's HTC Android Basic Kitchen - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
In my crazy quest to learn more about Android, I decided to create a companion to dsixda's kitchen that will take some of the drudgery out of downloading and compiling AOSP and the HTC kernel.
Here's what the current menus looks like:
Code:
Select the device that you would like to build for.
1) HTC Droid Eris
a) About Builder
0. Exit
Please enter option number:
and then
Code:
1. Sync AOSP - Cupcake (1.5) repo
2. Sync AOSP - Donut (1.6) repo
3. Sync AOSP - Eclair (2.1) repo
4. Sync AOSP - Froyo (2.2) repo
0. Exit
Please enter option number:
You can follow these two steps, and you will get a freshly compiled, but unsigned ROM in the original_update folder. After running it through the kitchen, it boots up just fine. Of course, most of the hardware doesn't work. That's the part that I am working on now (seriously, I am). I've been working on this for a while, because as I said - this is really about me learning. If I can make a tool that someone finds useful, then great!
Install instructions:
1) download and unzip dsixda's kitchen to whatever directory you want
2) download Android Builder into kitchen's scripts/plugins folder and unzip
3) back out and start the kitchen
4) select 'Run plugin scripts' from Advanced menu and select 'Android Builder'
5) you're there!
NOTE: This will try to install/update all of the packages that it needs, including Java5. Please look at the code so that you know what it's doing. That's just a good general practice with any code that you can actually look at and that you have to run as root...
Future plans:
1) add more kernels (devices)
2) add more vendor trees (goes along with devices)
3) add more repos (CM5, CM6, AOSP Master)
I hope someone finds this useful, and feel free to post useful suggestions/bug reports.
DOWNLOAD - (https://github.com/gnarlyc/android_builder)
CHANGELOG -
v5. - kiel123 re-wrote v.4 as a plugin to dsixda's kitchen with me testing afterward, minor fixes, removed Java6 as no longer needed by kitchen
v.4 - re-wrote to add structure to support more devices in the future
added option for Cupcake, Donut, and Froyo
added .config files that enable touchscreen in kernel by default
v.3 - unreleased build
v.2 - corrected misspellings in code and dialogs
added sudo to launch setup script (Still need to sudo bash first. Sorry.)
v.1 - initial release

Very nice. I have been doing the same. I have used darchstar's post here as the basis of my work. But, I am always glad to look how others are doing things. Thanks for the post.

arockj said:
Very nice. I have been doing the same. I have used darchstar's post here as the basis of my work. But, I am always glad to look how others are doing things. Thanks for the post.
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Thanks for the thanks! I don't quite get the vendor tree thing, but I just need to look at it again a few times. And, that's where I'm at. It would be really neat to be able create a working AOSP ROM from scratch with minimal manual intervention. It might not be possible, but I haven't found that out yet. (But wait! If you can do it manually, it can be scripted. Right?)

there's typo in your install script
look for line: android_builder*
should be android-builder*
and your install script should use mv command instead of cp to avoid files duplication
EDIT: also you should use sudo command along with ./ab_setup script or include within script as well.
When i ran ./abmenu and i get this message
Code:
Please copy 'menu-kd' to the root of your kitchen folder with 'menu'
menu-kd?.... don't you mean abmenu? turned out it was looking for menu file which i had it renamed to kitchen_menu but I fixed that on my part and all is working well.
Dont let any of my criticism scare you away, I can see there's a lot of potential use for this scripts, great start by the way.

firestrife23 said:
there's typo in your install script
look for line: android_builder*
should be android-builder*
and your install script should use mv command instead of cp to avoid files duplication
EDIT: also you should use sudo command along with ./ab_setup script or include within script as well.
When i ran ./abmenu and i get this message
Code:
Please copy 'menu-kd' to the root of your kitchen folder with 'menu'
menu-kd?.... don't you mean abmenu? turned out it was looking for menu file which i had it renamed to kitchen_menu but I fixed that on my part and all is working well.
Dont let any of my criticism scare you away, I can see there's a lot of potential use for this scripts, great start by the way.
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I renamed all of the scripts at the last minute and thought that I had them fixed. I'll make the corrections and repost. The goal is to get this thing working well. Your criticism is just more motivation. Thanks!

I'm new to all this but I would love this to work with Froyo source.

Geo411m said:
I'm new to all this but I would love this to work with Froyo source.
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The current 'internal' build works with Cupcake (1.5), Eclair (2.1), and Froyo (2.2). It's not ready to release though. Give me another week or two. I'm working on proprietary bits now, so that you get a more usable ROM from the start.
Although from your sig, it appears that you don't have an Eris, so you probably don't care much about it's proprietary bits. If you want it to get Froyo instead of Eclair, you can just change 'eclair' to 'froyo' in the script that creates the repo.
I'm with you on Froyo. I have a feeling in a month or two very few people will want to run a pre-Froyo ROM. It's really nice.

rm error on install
i keep getting "rm: cannot remove './bkup': No such file or directory"
the file is there untill i run the ./install script then it disappears and shoots me an error any help would be appriciated

Sjflowerhorn said:
i keep getting "rm: cannot remove './bkup': No such file or directory"
the file is there untill i run the ./install script then it disappears and shoots me an error any help would be appriciated
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That files was used by me while developing the code. It's not needed. I'll fix the install script for v.5, but if you really want to fix the script now... Just remove the line -
'rm ./bkup'
from the 'install' script
You should still be able to start Android Builder by typing './abmenu', as long as it's in the same folder with the kitchen's menu. The error shouldn't matter.

gnarlyc said:
That files was used by me while developing the code. It's not needed. I'll fix the install script for v.5, but if you really want to fix the script now... Just remove the line -
'rm ./bkup'
from the 'install' script
You should still be able to start Android Builder by typing './abmenu', as long as it's in the same folder with the kitchen's menu. The error shouldn't matter.
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k thanks i think it worked the same even with the error but got it =)

Sjflowerhorn said:
k thanks i think it worked the same even with the error but got it =)
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Good deal. Let me know how it goes.

gnarlyc --
Have you thought of making this into a .plugin file that can be placed in the scripts/plugins folder of the HTC Android Kitchen? Then that way you won't need to update your scripts each time I update my kitchen
In my thread I could provide a link to your tool, so that people can add that plugin if they want.

dsixda said:
gnarlyc --
Have you thought of making this into a .plugin file that can be placed in the scripts/plugins folder of the HTC Android Kitchen? Then that way you won't need to update your scripts each time I update my kitchen
In my thread I could provide a link to your tool, so that people can add that plugin if they want.
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The thought has occurred to me.
Give me a bit. A link in your thread would be great. It might even motivate me to add more devices. Getting stuck on adding Eris proprietary bits has lead me down the road of making a ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=725447) and documenting the process. I'll get back to Android Builder soon though.
Ok, so...
TO-DO
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1) rewrite AB as a plugin to dsixda's HTC Android Kitchen
2) add proprietary bits for Eris
3) add more devices
4) add CM repos
5) add Gingerbread repo
6) add compatibility with more distros

i am getting line 28: update-java-alernatives: command not found?

lord194409 said:
i am getting line 28: update-java-alernatives: command not found?
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Interesting... I've tested from a freshly installed Ubuntu installation several times. It should install everything you need.
You could try 'update-alternatives --config java' and let me know what it says. You could also look for a file called 'setup_ran' in the root of the Kitchen, and delete it. Start './abmenu' after that and try again.

thanks for answering. Could the problem be that i installed it on cygwin.

lord194409 said:
thanks for answering. Could the problem be that i installed it on cygwin.
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Yes. Android Builder will not work under cygwin. I don't know that it ever will. That's on the TO-DO list, but it's so far down that it's not on the posted TO-DO list.
I've only tested under Xubuntu 10.04 and minimal Ubuntu 10.04.
If you happen to work it out on cygwin, let me know! I'm sure others would be happy to have the option. Heck, I might even be. I'm mainly using Ubuntu because of AB anyway. (Although, it is kind of growing on me.)

thanks i will look in to it.
Sent from my Eris using XDA App

just wanted to let you know that it didn't work for me. It runs, gives some errors and outputs a update.zip called AOSPbase but the file is only 1.1kb in size.

Geo411m said:
just wanted to let you know that it didn't work for me. It runs, gives some errors and outputs a update.zip called AOSPbase but the file is only 1.1kb in size.
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make sure you have java5 and java6 jre/jdk installed. it should work then. i had a similar issue the first time through... took it literally 10hours plus, then output was the 1.1k AOSPBase.zip file.
manually installed all java components, and everything worked perfectly then (and took half the time)

Linux Deodex Kitchen

I'm baaaack
Andrizoid's Linux Deodex Kitchen V4
This has been an ongoing project for a while now.
Since all the other deodexers are windows .bat scripts, i decided to make one for those of us on Ubuntu/Mac/etc
Extract to your desktop and check the README file for full instructions and more information.
Changelog
V4
Fixed some of the code, added the optional make-rom.sh which adds the freshly de-odexed files to the original rom and signs it making it ready to flash.
V3
Everything is fully automated, and will deodex the whole rom rather than one file at a time. Smali and Baksmali version updated to 1.2.3
V2
Added setup.sh to make things easier.
V1
Original script.
Love me or hate me, its a great little setup. It can be used with any rom on any device.

Interesting
Sounds interesting. I'll have to play with it this weekend.
I hope the drama is settled down now... I get enough when my wife watches "real housewives"

theres a few issues, it only de-odexes apk WELL for now. for the framework files it gets kind tricky. ill work on it a bit when i get some time.

I've been looking over your source code, I notice few lines could use simple shortcuts, for example
Code:
/home/ken/deodex-kitchen
you can change that to
Code:
~/deodex-kitchen
~ will tell shell to use current user's home directory, just make it more universal for anyone to use. Just my 2 cents.
it even work with cd, cp, mv, mkdir commands, ~ is very handy, and save you from having to type in full path.

firestrife23 said:
I've been looking over your source code, I notice few lines could use simple shortcuts, for example
Code:
/home/ken/deodex-kitchen
you can change that to
Code:
~/deodex-kitchen
~ will tell shell to use current user's home directory, just make it more universal for anyone to use. Just my 2 cents.
it even work with cd, cp, mv, mkdir commands, ~ is very handy, and save you from having to type in full path.
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ya, a lot of the code could be cleaned up but thats the very basic version. i put it together to help build my rom, i got it working enough to do that and kinda forgot about it. i need to clean it up and put out another verison
too many projects at once haha.

found few bugs with your make-rom.sh script, on last couples of lines starting with rm will fail, because you forgot to add cd to rom-output and your script also left framework-res.apk at root of rom-output folder which should be moved to /system/framework
in your readme file, you forgot to add a step to run setup.sh script before de-odexing apk/jar files.

firestrife23 said:
found few bugs with your make-rom.sh script, on last couples of lines starting with rm will fail, because you forgot to add cd to rom-output and your script also left framework-res.apk at root of rom-output folder which should be moved to /system/framework
in your readme file, you forgot to add a step to run setup.sh script before de-odexing apk/jar files.
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ya when i used it i made some heavy modifications to it before i got a rom to boot. i need to update this thing but ive got a few other projects im the making.
not enough people seemed interested in this to make it my priority

Andrizoid said:
ya when i used it i made some heavy modifications to it before i got a rom to boot. i need to update this thing but ive got a few other projects im the making.
not enough people seemed interested in this to make it my priority
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I use Ubuntu, and your script fit the bill and spare me from having to reboot into windoze to use their crappy batch files. Of course your hands is all tied up with other projects, however I'll be watching this tread once you get around to updating this. Just keep bring out the great stuff!
I like people like you that make contribute back to community such as this valuable tools, unlike other developers which pretty much rather keep it to themselves (I won't list their names here, and not trying to start a flame-war) as the rest of first time ROM cooker have to figure it out the hard way.

I've just been pointed to this thread while looking for a way to deodex
the link works still, but the file has been deleted by Rapidshare, "due to inactivity"
Any chance of it being uploaded again please?

lew247 said:
I've just been pointed to this thread while looking for a way to deodex
the link works still, but the file has been deleted by Rapidshare, "due to inactivity"
Any chance of it being uploaded again please?
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why not just use dsixda's kitchen?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
then you'll also have just about everything you need (not just a deodex-er)
plus, don't think you'll get any "support" on this anymore... whereas, with dsixda's kitchen, you'll have LOTS of support for quite a while

firestrife23 said:
I've been looking over your source code, I notice few lines could use simple shortcuts, for example
Code:
/home/ken/deodex-kitchen
you can change that to
Code:
~/deodex-kitchen
~ will tell shell to use current user's home directory, just make it more universal for anyone to use. Just my 2 cents.
it even work with cd, cp, mv, mkdir commands, ~ is very handy, and save you from having to type in full path.
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Use $HOME instead of ~. ~ doesn't always refer to the home directory.

I can help you with the need to rename $path in the script before it will work are you interested?

Upload to mediafire please.

Trent said:
Upload to mediafire please.
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Double that. Please do this, since Multiupload has been closed.

{TOOL}MetaMorph Builder v3-Linux Only[8-5]

This could be considered part of the development forum or the apps and theme forum depending on how you look at it. if you have an issue, just click the report button and request that it be moved. no need to flame and troll and post that you reported it, just do it and move on.
Lots of people have asked me how to put together a theme control file, and its actually VERY easy but this tool makes it even easier.
this is an example of a theme control file created by this tool
Test-Theme.xml
Code:
<themename>Test-theme</themename>
<author>tater-salad</author>
<phone>Android Phone Codename Hulk</phone>
<rom>CM 8</rom>
<item>Phone.apk</item>
<path>/system/app<path>
<item>framework-res.apk</item>
<path>/system/framework</path>
<description>Requires reboot</description>
<item>FM-Reciever.apk</item>
<path>/data/app<path>
<item>My-custom-app.apk</item>
<path>/data/app<path>
run the mm-builder script and follow the on screen directions. you will of course need to put the correct replacement files in their respective directories, but this script will make all the right folders and set up your theme.xml for you. Bash scrip means linux only. This is also a super easy script, so i may get a batch version soon.
You can extract this file to any directory
All thanks to Stericson. W/O him we wouldnt have a metamorph app to begin with
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v2
includes these additions
Code:
mkdir $app
mkdir $app/res
mkdir $app/res/drawable
mkdir $app/res/drawable-mdpi
mkdir $app/res/drawable-land-mdpi
mkdir $app/res/drawable-port-mdpi
these are the commonly used directories when it comes to theming. now all the sub-folders should be set up right.

I think this tool will be very helpful for newer themers and the like, looking forward to a windows adaptation.
also, what does it matter if ban_dover was andrizoid, seems to me hes not doing any harm here now, just trying to help people out, so give a guy a chance to rectify himself before you all start the flamethrowers

snyluc13 said:
I think this tool will be very helpful for newer themers and the like, looking forward to a windows adaptation.
also, what does it matter if ban_dover was andrizoid, seems to me hes not doing any harm here now, just trying to help people out, so give a guy a chance to rectify himself before you all start the flamethrowers
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windows version is certainly viable, but batch is SO alien coming from bash. there isnt even an ls command
im going to have to play around and get a feel for batch before i get to work on it.

v3 is up. ive put together working metamorph themes using v3, so its been pretty well tested.

How about some constructive use of this thread?
ban_dover,
I've got a question. I read through Stericson's announcement post on XDA, and also the project page, and he mentions limitations due to signing checks of market apps.
Does it actually re-sign the .apk with the test key that all the devs use, or does it merely re-zip the .apk so that the manifest and keys are broken (won't pass a jarsigner -verify test)?
If it is the 2nd alternative, I guess that would means that Android does not check "non-market app" installs for valid signatures? Or that it doesn't check system apps but does check market apps?
The reason this piques my interest is that I noticed one of the devs recently released a ROM which had all its apps de-odexed and re-signed with the test key. (Can't remember which ROM, perhaps an xtr* ROM?)
Anyone else that knows how this goes is welcome to answer as well.
bftb0

Im going to lock this thread if the flame war doesn't stop
Play nice
Edit: Thread re-opened, ban_dover and I discussed and hopefully we will not have any more issues.
Thanks
Captainkrtek

bftb0 said:
How about some constructive use of this thread?
ban_dover,
I've got a question. I read through Stericson's announcement post on XDA, and also the project page, and he mentions limitations due to signing checks of market apps.
Does it actually re-sign the .apk with the test key that all the devs use, or does it merely re-zip the .apk so that the manifest and keys are broken (won't pass a jarsigner -verify test)?
If it is the 2nd alternative, I guess that would means that Android does not check "non-market app" installs for valid signatures? Or that it doesn't check system apps but does check market apps?
The reason this piques my interest is that I noticed one of the devs recently released a ROM which had all its apps de-odexed and re-signed with the test key. (Can't remember which ROM, perhaps an xtr* ROM?)
Anyone else that knows how this goes is welcome to answer as well.
bftb0
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to be honest im not sure. but i can say that the rom your talking about isnt going to have any issues with anything because of the re-signing.

so the those who have downloaded it, what do you think?
ive tested it by putting together a few simple MMs, and it worked fne for me. have any of you ran into any issues?

[Webtop] Webtop source code

Motorola released the source code of the Webtop application at sourceforge!!!
Does this mean devs can now easily integrate and improve webtop?

I don't know how the guys at CM7 are going about hacking it or how much they have done towards their own webtop, and even with the source it probably still depends in lots of motoblur hacks and dependencies that are not part of CM7. However, it is indeed more then a big step in the right direction and should help dev's immensely! Very good news, thank you sir
Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

Did some more digging, the OP meant to link this URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/motorola-webtop.motorola/files/ which does contain jaunty jackalope 9.04 as 1.2.0 and maverick meercat 10.10 as 1.3.0...

Just ordered a lapdock so going to start hacking on this. Has anyone tired building a Maverick webtop for the atrix? I am assuming if done then it will be supported by ubuntu till april 2012, so the repositories should work?

i sure hope so, cuz I tried every web top hack on this site and none of them have worked....maybe there is a solution somewhere in those 100 pages filled with mostly noobs asking how to flash or do they need to be rooted to do it lol

Has anyone actually tried building this yet? I don't have a dev box set up that I can use yet but want to play around with this when I get a chance....

would this possibly mean, that there's a chance to port the webtop-function to other devices/smartphones that have HDMI- and USB- Ports?
For example an Xperia Arc working with the Lapdock...

I don't understand the links. From what I can tell, all of these are Jaunty. They are are listed as delta's of each other, but the build instructions all indicate they are still Jaunty.
This is from a quick lookover, not in depth. It may very well be that the readmes are wrong, but I'm not encouraged by the firefox packages I see. I'm going to try to put together the build environment they describe to see if I can build one. If so, then I'll see what can be done after that...this is very back burner, so don't be expecting anything soon no matter how much of an obsession this has become

After some wget magic I was able to download all 4 releases into independent folders, and I've tried building webtop 2.0.0 on 11.10 setup.. didn't work so well. missing dependencies...
I am confused myself on the read-me's they all seem to indicate that you seed with jaunty. and if 1.3.0 is based on maverick then their build process is wrong?!
I've had success using rootstock (slick program) and chroot getting into a emulated amr7 root environment. I've even used my current install of webtop pulled out of my phone (from webtop2sd) and put into my dev machine and got that working well. but getting the packages to build in the explained environment alludes me.
I'm going to try building 1.3.0-133 tonight using a new rootstock pull of maverick. if people are interested I'll post how I grabbed all of the packages off of sourceforge later tonight using wget in 3 easy steps. this is a side project of mine, but I would really like to try and build webtop packages from scratch so that I can build a repo to allow us to up date our webtops with just apt-get to get to the latest edition.
Has any one else had success building the packages?
cpuchip

cpuchip said:
After some wget magic I was able to download all 4 releases into independent folders, and I've tried building webtop 2.0.0 on 11.10 setup.. didn't work so well. missing dependencies...
I am confused myself on the read-me's they all seem to indicate that you seed with jaunty. and if 1.3.0 is based on maverick then their build process is wrong?!
I've had success using rootstock (slick program) and chroot getting into a emulated amr7 root environment. I've even used my current install of webtop pulled out of my phone (from webtop2sd) and put into my dev machine and got that working well. but getting the packages to build in the explained environment alludes me.
I'm going to try building 1.3.0-133 tonight using a new rootstock pull of maverick. if people are interested I'll post how I grabbed all of the packages off of sourceforge later tonight using wget in 3 easy steps. this is a side project of mine, but I would really like to try and build webtop packages from scratch so that I can build a repo to allow us to up date our webtops with just apt-get to get to the latest edition.
Has any one else had success building the packages?
cpuchip
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I agree with all you said about the build...I just don't see any of them built on Maverick based on their instructions. Please post your wget magic. There 's lots of files and I didn't take time to figure how to do it.
I've gotten as far as you have. I've got the rootstock environment and packages installed. I haven't looked closely at everything, and I don't think the custom moto packages get installed (like I don't see Firefox installed, and what's in the repository is not firefox 8). And no, I haven't figured out from their instructions how to generate the system image to put on the phone. My first goal is to do just that...generate a stock webtop image per the instructions and get it onto the phone. If I can do that, then I was going to try new packages.
I've also downloaded the mentioned cross compiler and installed it, but I haven't gotten much further that that on figuring it out.
Eventually, I would like to get a PPA on launchpad with new packages that everyone can use. I've read that launchpad will now support armel PPAs.

Seems like we're both stuck at the same part. I was thinking of doing the same thing as you, start a PPA at Launchpad.
I believe I can help you with getting a base ubuntu.img that you could work with.
if you follow the torial on this website: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch
it instructs you on how to build an ext2/ext3 .img file and then unpack the tar into it.
say you want an ubuntu-arm.img file that'll contain your ubuntu system.
mke2fs -F ubuntu-arm.img (we want ext2 or ext3 not ext4, android doesn't support it yet)
dd if=/dev/zero of=ubuntu-arm.img bs=1MB count=0 seek=4096
sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-arm.img /directory/to/mount/to
now finally unpack the tar into the mounted image!
sudo tar -C /mnt -zxf armel-rootfs-200904151837.tgz
sudo umount /mnt
that should get you want you want to start with.
haven't done the maverick build yet. I'll post the wget magic next after I look it up.
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okay now for the wget magic!
first download the index.html page of the WT-1.3.0-105 page (I assume you want 2.0.0 or 1.3.0 release)
mkdir WT-1.3.0
cd WT-1.3.0
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/motorola-webtop.motorola/files/WT-1.3.0-X/WT-1.3.0-105_DBN-1/
next strip out everything but the table tags that make up the list of downloads, injecting a <html><body> above the <table> tag replacing what you removed
and </body></html> after the </table> tag replaceing what you removed.
next start wget with the index.html file just saved by first running wget.
wget -i index.html --force-html --content-disposition
on ubuntu I had to add the --content-disposition flag in order for it to properly save the file names. on fedora it did the right thing without that flag.
then wait an hour and you should have in that WT-1.3.0 will have all the 105 files in it!
I've got a two more scripts to unpack all the files. I'll have to look them up. but that should get you going.

AIW that and webtop-panel (and supposedly evbridge...)
those are the packages I care about in the port.
Do you know what package on the source code page contains AIW? (that's the android in window application.)

I haven't had a chance to work on this lately. However, I suspect that those components are pure Moto code, and therefore not required to release. Probably only the binaries are included. That's pure speculation, though.

The readme's say that it's not one to one for the packages they posted and the programs installed from them in our webtops. though reading the new releases on that webtop sourceforge project.. it says it's only the packages they were required to release by oss licensing... so it's probably not posted. the readme file inside of /usr/share/aiw says it's copyrighted and proprietary. So that really only gives us a few options... the easiest of which is isolated the packages we want to maintain and find all the libraries they link/load to dynamically and create a motorola/compatibility/lib/folder to put them all in, and make their execution start up using a change of library path, that way we can update the operating system without affecting those packages.... not my favorite method, but doable.
I've attached an lsof and an ldd of the aiw program. It'd be no small feat to isolate that package.. but it might not be so bad to take the webtopscripts1.6 and find out what packages they hold back.. and then use that list to find what libraries to move across the system. just ideas at this point.

after looking around, it looks like we do not have the source to the motorola specific software (webtop parts). If we do want to move to a later version of ubuntu but still keep things like aiw (android in window) then my thinking would be to jail the current applications that we like (aiw, webtop-panel) those with which we do not have the source to. and then move us to the latest ubuntu (11.10)
My hope is though that the new update to the Atrix will be the latest webtop. That would be much less painful because I believe it's based on 10.10 and we have current support for that through april and then I wont have to bother with this until then............
but I think I'll create a few scripts and automate the whole process of jailing the critical parts of webtop, and see if I can get them to work through the jailed environments.
what do you think?

Yes, definitely we will need to somehow isolate the pieces that have library dependencies moving forward.
Also, in trying to get a non-gnome xfce4 environment while still using webtop-panel, I've come to the conclusion that webtop-panel is a modifed gnome-panel application. It seems to need gnome-settings-daemon, and doesn't like it when you kill gnome-settings-daemon. So I would love to see the source for that to see what they are really doing...probably not going to happen.

Hey are you running a newer webtop then stock 1.2
I see that you're running 2.3.6 (is that from fruitcake derivitive? or 4.5.140?) if so is the firefox/ubuntu newer in it?
I kinda can't wait for the new update to push, I really hope we're getting an update to webtop that would move us to 10.10 or better. That would make my day.

There is another thread where this was discussed, but in short:
webtop 2.3.4: original firefox
webtop 2.3.5: firefox 6 or 7 (I think 6, nut I don't remember offhand)
webtop 2.3.6: firefox 8

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere (and please point me to the correct thread) but does webtop use some kind of modified xorg or some custom x11 derivative? If it's modified that should be published and could help with building our own app.
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Parastie said:
Sorry if this is answered elsewhere (and please point me to the correct thread) but does webtop use some kind of modified xorg or some custom x11 derivative? If it's modified that should be published and could help with building our own app.
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It looks like they are using a custom xorg install:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/motorola-webtop.motorola/files/WT-1.3.0-X/WT-1.3.0-105_DBN-1/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mot....3.0-105_DBN-1/xorg-7.5+6ubuntu3.tgz/download
I don't know how far different it is, but there should be a changelong inside that .tgz file.

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Hi, just testing your scripts, as Im a Linux noob
Got this error
Code:
.repo_sync_log: No such file or directory
./repo_sync: line 19: repo: command not found
but Receiving objects as I type, will get back to you.
Thx
EDIT: Only synced kernel source from cm, rest of the folders are empty
EDIT2: added a screenshot.

I am working on another project right now that will incorporate this better. However I do not know how long it will take.
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