Mer

Blueprint for Mer

"Mer" is an experimental project, where an attempt of "reconstructing" the Maemo platform is done, based on the proposal on http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Reconstructed. Mer means ocean in french, "more" in danish, etc..

Launchpad page

http://launchpad.net/m-r

Platforms targeted

 * hasty-armv5el
 * hasty-armv5el-vfp
 * hasty-armv6el-vfp
 * jaunty-armel
 * jaunty-i386

Repositories and branches

Repositories at http://trac.tspre.org/mer/<arch>

 * stable - stable release, packages are througly tested and work on all platforms
 * testing - where packages that build on all platforms and has passed general testing
 * unstable - where built packages are entered at first, packages may not be same on all platforms.

Branching from Maemo packages

 * get bzr-svn, bzr
 * bzr branch <svn-url>
 * bzr push bzr+ssh://username@bazaar.launchpad.net/~username/m-r/<package name>

Builder system

Status: http://merbuilder.jaiku.com

Requests: http://jaiku.com/channel/merbuilder

Authorized users (identified by their login) can ask builder by sending <platform regexp> <bzr branch url> to start building on archs matching the platform regexp. For example, jaunty-* lp:~carsten-munk/m-r/glib

Build system

 * beagle1: BeagleBoard handling source, hasty-{armv5el,armv5el-vfp,armv6el-vfp}, jaunty-armel. Location: Århus, DK

 * dell1: pentium4 handling jaunty-i386. Location: Århus, DK