Debian-Repos is a set of scripts to build TI's Debian packages with a single command.

The generation of a Debian package (binary and source) involves many steps, such as obtaining the tar of the source code, generating template files, modifying template files and the build system, setting environment variables etc. The run.sh script handles these steps, thus the building of a deb package for TI's packages is as simple as running run.sh with the desired package's name.

This repository is useful to the following audience:

1. Potential package contributors who want to fix bugs or add enhancements to TI packages
2. Users who want a package with the latest changes to the master branch
3. Anyone who wants to study Debian packaging

The run.sh file is the "main" script that should be run. It takes as argument the name of the package to be built.

Each TI package has a corresponding directory, named after its source package. Within this directory exists the suite/<distro-variant>/debian/ path. All Debian related files (control, rules, man pages etc) for the package are located here.

There also exists a <package-name>/version.sh file. This file is sourced by run.sh. It exports a bunch of variables for run.sh to use. It also contains a run_prep function, which run.sh calls. run_prep carries out all package-specific operations needed to build the deb files.

To build a package, the syntax is:

./run.sh <package-name>

This command carries out all necessary steps to build the package. The package and all related files are then stored in build/<package-name>. Note that certain packages may require root privileges.

For example: to build ti-linux-kernel, the command is:

./run.sh ti-linux-kernel

The output is then found in build/ti-linux-kernel/.