Pranav Desai wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
The usual way is to add the package to OpenEmbedded, and then add
it's name to the task-openmoko-feed.bb
<http://task-openmoko-feed.bb> recipe so that it automatically gets
built, packaged and deployed to the official download site.
But wouldn't that mean writing a recipe for all packages that we want to
add?
That is correct.
Many third party apps already have a makefile setup, why do you
want to change that ?
Writing a recipe does not involve changing the existing Makefile. If the
existing Makefile is written properly, then the recipe should be about 5
lines long.
But the major reason to do this is the one I gave below, which you
didn't comment on. Security and trust of third-party apps should be a
very significant consideration for the Openmoko community.
Also, I am much more likely to trust a package recipe that I can
build and install myself using OpenEmbedded (or download from an
official site where the package has been built from source by a
trusted autobuild system), rather than downloading some unknown,
possibly virus-tainted binary package from some random site ...
-- Rod
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