After initializing the build environment, the cache_distfiles folder currently is writable by everyone (which is not ideal, fix following soon). The aportgen code for `busybox-static-*` and `musl-*` copies the foreign arch `.apk` file to the distfiles, but it executes this action as regular user and not as root. This only works as long as build initialization ran before (which may not be the case on Travis and expecting this to run before is a bug in general). With this commit, the copy action gets executed as root, so it works in any case. I'm commiting this directly (without a PR), because it is a super simple fix and it unblocks our continuous integration. Local testing: $ pmbootstrap -y zap $ sudo rm -r ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_distfiles $ pmbootstrap aportgen musl-armhf |
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helpers | ||
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CONTRIBUTING.md | ||
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README.md
pmbootstrap
Introduction | Security Warning | Supported Devices | |
Sophisticated chroot/build/flash tool to develop and install postmarketOS.
For in-depth information please refer to the postmarketOS wiki.
Requirements
- 2 GB of RAM recommended for compiling
- Linux distribution (
x86
,x86_64
, oraarch64
)- Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) does not work! Please use VirtualBox instead.
- Kernels based on the grsec patchset do not work (Alpine: use linux-vanilla instead of linux-hardened, Arch: linux-hardened is not based on grsec)
- On Alpine Linux only:
apk add coreutils
- Python 3.4+
- OpenSSL
Usage
Assuming you have a supported device, you can build and flash a postmarketOS image by running through the following steps. For new devices check the porting guide.
First, clone the git repository and initialize your pmbootstrap environment:
$ git clone https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap
$ cd pmbootstrap
$ ./pmbootstrap.py init
While running any pmbootstrap command, it's always useful to have a log open in a separate window where further details can be seen:
$ ./pmbootstrap.py log
It's now time to run a full build which will create the boot and system images:
$ ./pmbootstrap.py install
Once your device is connected and is ready to be flashed (e.g. via fastboot), you can run a flash of the kernel (boot) and system partitions:
$ ./pmbootstrap.py flasher flash_kernel
$ ./pmbootstrap.py flasher flash_system
After a reboot, the device will prompt for the full-disk encryption password, which you typed in the install step (unless you have disabled full-disk encryption with --no-fde
). Once the partition has been unlocked it is possible to connect via SSH:
$ dhclient -v enp0s20f0u1
$ ssh user@172.16.42.1
Development
Testing
Install pytest
(via your package manager or pip) and run it inside the pmbootstrap folder.