[Commotion-dev] Commotion Client Development

Paul Gardner-Stephen paul at servalproject.org
Sat Jun 7 05:05:20 EDT 2014


Hi Joshua,

Great work.  I recall that there may already be a debian package for
serval-dna.  Andrew can probably comment on this.

Paul.


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Joshua Besneatte <besneatte at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello All!
>
> I have begun playing with the Commotion Client code and have become
> totally obsessed :)
>
> I have dropped all work on the old client and the work I was doing on the
> RPi to focus on the new version of Commotion Client. I just got an ubiquity
> picostation m2hp router and will put the CW firmware onto that for testing.
>
> I see there have been a lot of updates since the previous client became
> deprecated. In order to begin playing with the code I have needed to make a
> number of updates to the utilities present. Here is what I have figured out
> so far (please correct me if I am wrong on anything!!!!):
>
> Commotion client requires commotiond, serval-dna and
> commotion-service-manager. I want to do all the installs I can via package
> management so I started out by forking Natmey's commotion-deb-builder and
> modifying it to pull the best packages to use with commotion-client. I also
> fixed some bugs in the scripts. Once I get the perfect repo file sorted out
> I will commit that. Fork is here:
>
> https://github.com/Shamanon/commotion-deb-builder
>
> The serval-dna by OTI seems to be deprecated along with serval-crypo so I
> forked Serval Project's serval-dna and am almost done debianifying the
> package using dh_make and the OTI serval-dna/debian as a starting point. I
> also added an empty directory "objs" to prevent errors in compilation (that
> part was a hack as the problem needs to be fixed in their makefile or
> something). My fork isn't quite working with git-builddebpkg yet, but I am
> close. Today for sure.
>
> https://github.com/Shamanon/serval-dna
>
> Debian files for commotion-service-manager seem to be outdated as well.
> They are requiring serval-crypto and luci-commotion. serval-crypto is
> marked as deprecated nor is it listed on the project outline as required. I
> have started by removing that requirement in my fork. I am wondering if
> luci-commotion should still be a requirement?
>
> I figure while I am on a roll, I will debianify commotiond as well. I
> assume that will need to be done at some point anyway.
>
> Once I get the debianification sorted out for everything I will get
> started on the client.
>
> ~Shamanon
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