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paul_chany
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 Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 6:09 pm Post subject: MoPi: Mobile Power for the Raspberry Pi |
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Hi,
I just want to ask a question about installing simbamond software on Gentoo Linux system.
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 Model. On it Gentoo Linux, and a Moodle system are running.
I wish to get this MoPi to serve as UPS for my RPi.
Only do not know how can one install the simbamond debian package here, on Gentoo Linux?
I ask the question:
"Can I expect a simbamond daemon which is running on a Gentoo linux too?"
the developers, but get an answer:
"There's nothing very debian-specific in the package -- I'd just google "installing .deb on gentoo" and see where that gets you?
best"
So, what can I do to achieve my goal with simbamond?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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paul_chany,
Fetch the source from git then build and install by hand.
When you do that, software should really install to /usr/local.
This package won't do that, which is a bad thing. You might want to modify the makefile.
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paul_chany
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | paul_chany,
Fetch the source from git then build and install by hand.
When you do that, software should really install to /usr/local.
This package won't do that, which is a bad thing. You might want to modify the makefile. |
I have now the MoPi hardware at my hands. 
I am willing to install this on to my Gentoo system now.
Here are few lines in makefile in simbamon directory:
| Code: | VERSION=4.1
NEXT_SNAP=1
P=simbamond
D=simbamon
MOPI=mopi
MOPICLI=mopicli
MOPIAPI=mopiapi.py
PD=package/$(VERSION)
INSTALLED_FILES=\
$(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/$(D) \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/$(MOPI) \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/$(MOPICLI) \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/$(MOPIAPI) \
$(DESTDIR)/etc/init.d/$(P) \
$(DESTDIR)/etc/default/$(P) \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/$(D).8.gz \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/$(P).8.gz \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/$(MOPI).8.gz \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/$(MOPICLI).8.gz \
$(DESTDIR)/usr/share/man/man8/$(MOPIAPI).8.gz
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How can I modify $(DESTDIR) variable?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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paul_chany,
DESTDIR looks like an environment variable. Its normally empty, so its default value is "" (the empty string)
Random example from your post. | Code: | | $(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/$(MOPI) |
and we see that
Taken together that expands to /usr/sbin/mopi, which is what you might expect.
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Hu
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Since the package does respect DESTDIR, but does not provide an easy way to install to /usr/local, you could instead write an ebuild for it so that Portage can manage it when it is installed to /usr. |
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paul_chany
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | Since the package does respect DESTDIR, but does not provide an easy way to install to /usr/local, you could instead write an ebuild for it so that Portage can manage it when it is installed to /usr. |
I wish to write an ebuild for this, but have not enough spare time ( because I am a teacher and teaching they lost me a lot of my time ).
However I do not write any ebuild so far.. but if somehow find time for this then I will try to write it.
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| If you need help writing an ebuild, we can try to guide you. If the installation is simple enough, someone might write the ebuild for you. |
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paul_chany
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| Hu wrote: | | If you need help writing an ebuild, we can try to guide you. If the installation is simple enough, someone might write the ebuild for you. |
OK
I'm reading now followings:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_guide_to_write_Gentoo_Ebuilds
Please tell me how to start writing ebuild for simbamon, a Simple Battery Monitor daemon?
Eg. should it hase name like: app-misc/simbamon or sys-power/simbamon ?
So I am following the Gentoo Wiki Ebuild.
So far did followings:
| Code: | mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/sys-power/simbamon
cd $_
cp /usr/portage/header.txt ./simbamon-1.0.ebuild
nano simbamon-1.0.ebuild |
| Code: | # Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Id$
EAPI=6
DESCRIPTION="a Simple Battery Monitor daemon for projects like Mobile Pi ( MoPi ) -- http://pi.gate.ac.uk/mopi"
SLOT="0"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/hamishcunningham/pi-tronics/tree/master/simbamon"
SRC_URI="" |
| Code: | | ebuild simbamon-1.0.ebuild manifest clean merge |
As you can see I do not know what to put in SRC_URI?
Because the simbamon code is a part of the pi-tronics and only pi-tronics is packaged into a ZIP archive:
https://github.com/hamishcunningham/pi-tronics/archive/master.zip
OK I get help on #gentoo channel and the ebuild looks like this:
/usr/local/portage/sys-power/simbamon/simbamon-1.0.ebuild
| Code: | # Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Id$
EAPI=6
DESCRIPTION="a Simple Battery Monitor daemon for projects like Mobile Pi ( MoPi ) -- http://pi.gate.ac.uk/mopi"
SLOT="0"
SRC_URI=""
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/hamishcunningham/pi-tronics/tree/master/simbamon"
EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/hamishcunningham/pi-tronics/tree/master/simbamon"
LICENSE="GPL 3 or any later version ( unless otherwise stated ) ."
KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86" |
I can install this ebuild with command:
| Code: | | ebuild simbamon-1.0.ebuild manifest clean merge |
But, when I run it on a shell, I get this message:
| Quote: | | /usr/local/usr/sbin/simbamon: line 22: /lib/lsb/init-functions: No such file or directory |
So I get again help on #gentoo channel, but only that, that where to find about the /lib/lsb/init-funtions script.
Look here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/scripts/apds02.html
From here I do not know how to proceed further?
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