Personal Package Archive for Openvario

A layer for OpenVario firmware build system that builds a personal package archive (a.k.a. PPA), containing a set of extra applications, not shipped with the official image. The layer is responsible for building .ipk packages and opkg repository that can be uploaded to a public server.

Packages included

• openvario-shell - Alternative Openvario Menu
• openvario-compman - Openvario Competition Manager
• ovmenu-compman - menu entry Competition Manager for Openvario menu system
• syncthing - Syncthing, continuous file synchronization program

Using the PPA

In order to use the PPA, you need to reference it in opkg configuration:

$ echo src kedder-ppa http://openvario.lebedev.lt/opkg/armv7vet2hf-neon >> /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf
$ opkg update

Then packages can be installed using regular opkg commands, for example:

$ opkg install openvario-compman

Building the PPA

In order to build the packages, this layer needs to be added to the working openvario build. Check out OpenVario build instructions for details on setting up the build environment.

Edit the .env environment file and specify the path to the working dir of Openvario working directory, e.g.:

OPENVARIO_IMAGE_DIR=../meta-openvario

Start the build container:

docker compose run --rm dev

Build can be configured using these variables in your local.conf:

• PPA_UPLOAD_DEST - destination for uploading the PPA repository. In host:path format

Building the ppa is done using this command:

$ bitbake ppa-repo -c build_ppa

The package archive will end up in tmp/deploy/ppa directory of the build workspace directory. Build system also creates a shell script to upload packages to the public server using rsync, which can be run from the shell:

$ tmp/deploy/ppa-upload.sh

Building the complete image

It is possible to build the complete image with all software included in this PPA. Use this command:

bitbake openvario-image-ovshell

Adding new software to PPA

The list of packages included in the PPA is provided in DEPENDS variable of recipes-ppa/repo/ppa-repo.bb recipe. New packages are added by creating build recipes and referencing them in this variable.