Goal

Create a bitbake image with Node.JS, upstart, and other tools that might be useful for a multi-media web-based appliance.

Pre-Reqs

This process has been tested on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS development server.

You should have read

Setting up the Build Environment

If you would like explanation as well, please see the official Gumstix Documentation .

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash # select no, use bash instead of dash
# OR
# cd /bin
# sudo rm sh
# sudo ln -s bash sh

sudo bash -c 'echo "vm.mmap_min_addr = 0" > /etc/sysctl.d/mmap_min_addr.conf'
sudo bash -c 'echo "vm.vdso_enabled = 0" > /etc/sysctl.d/vdso.conf'
sudo sysctl -p

mkdir -p ~/overo-oe
cd ~/overo-oe
git clone git://gitorious.org/gumstix-oe/mainline.git org.openembedded.dev
cd org.openembedded.dev
git checkout --track -b overo origin/overo

cd ~/overo-oe
git clone git://git.openembedded.net/bitbake bitbake
cd bitbake
git checkout 1.8.18

cd ~/overo-oe
cp -r org.openembedded.dev/contrib/gumstix/build .

cp ~/.bashrc ~/bashrc.bak
cat ~/overo-oe/build/profile >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/overo-oe/build/profile

WARNING: You must not have symlinks above or below the overo-oe directory

Server Configuration

cd ~/overo-oe

vim build/conf/site.conf
# adjust according to the number of system cores (mine has 4)
# PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
# BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"

vim build/conf/local.conf
# choose the kernel image to use
# PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-omap-psp"
# MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS += " dsplink-module ti-cmemk-module"

Node.JS Appliance Image

upstart should replace sysvinit on a Node.JS appliance.

cd ~/overo-oe
mkdir -p user.collection/recipes/images/

nodejs-appliance-base-image.bb:

The only part I understand about this is IMAGE_INIT_MANAGER is being changed to upstart instead of sysvinit.

The rest is just copied from task-base-image.bb.

#Angstrom bootstrap image

PR = "r0"

PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-omap-psp"

IMAGE_PREPROCESS_COMMAND = "create_etc_timestamp"

ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL ?= ""

IMAGE_INIT_MANAGER = "upstart upstart-sysvcompat sysvinit-utils"

ZZAPSPLASH = ' ${@base_contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "screen", "psplash-zap", "",d)}'

DEPENDS = "task-base \
           ${SPLASH} \
           ${ZZAPSPLASH} \
     "

IMAGE_INSTALL = "task-base \
      ${ANGSTROM_EXTRA_INSTALL} \
      ${SPLASH} \
      ${ZZAPSPLASH} \
      "

IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""

inherit image

nodejs-appliance-image.bb

I don't understand the different between DEPENDS and IMAGE_INSTALL, but somehow this gets the things installed that I want.

#NodeJS-Appliance bootstrap image
require nodejs-appliance-base-image.bb

PR = "r0"

# libjpeg8 is just linked to somewhere by accident
DEPENDS += "task-base-extended \
      htop \
      vim \
      grep \
      nodejs \
      start-stop-daemon \
      rsync \
      gzip \
      tar \
      ffmpeg \
      openssl \
      libpng \
      gpsd \
      openssh \
    "

IMAGE_INSTALL += "task-base-extended \
      htop \
      vim \
      vim-syntax \
      grep \
      nodejs \
      start-stop-daemon \
      rsync \
      gzip \
      tar \
      ffmpeg \
      libpng \
      openssl \
      gpsd \
      openssh \
    "

#      libstdc++6 \
#      ntpdate \

export IMAGE_BASENAME = "nodejs-appliance-image"

nodejs-appliance-dev-image.bb:

This image extends the image above, but includes more tools for development.

Unfortunately, it appears that task-sdk-native requires sysvinit.

# Node.JS Appliance develpment image
require nodejs-appliance-image.bb

PR = "r12"
PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-omap-psp"

# task-sdk-native doesn't build at the moment
# but must be included

# python shouldn't be necessary once node switches from waf to cmake
# that should come within the next few months

# libopenssl-dev is needed for node
# libstdc++-dev is only needed to build inotify
DEPENDS += "\
    task-sdk-native \
    gdb \
    git \
    curl \
    python \
    "

#    python-misc \

IMAGE_INSTALL += "\
    task-sdk-native \
    gdb \
    git \
    curl \
    python \
    python-modules \
    openssh-scp \
    openssl-dev \
    "

#    openssh-scp \
#    openssl-dev \
#    libstdc++6-dev \
#    python \
#    python-misc \
#    python-modules \
#    python-subprocess \

export IMAGE_BASENAME = "nodejs-appliance-dev-image"

Installing the Image

SDHC=/dev/sde

cd ~/overo-oe
bitbake x-loader
bitbake u-boot-omap3
bitbake nodejs-appliance-image.bb

sudo mkdir /mnt/overo
sudo mount /dev/${SDHC}2 /mnt/overo
sudo mkdir /dev/${SDHC}1 /mnt/overo/boot
sudo cp tmp/deploy/glibc/images/overo/MLO-overo /mnt/overo/boot/MLO
sudo cp tmp/deploy/glibc/images/overo/u-boot-overo.bin /mnt/overo/boot/u-boot.bin
sudo cp tmp/deploy/glibc/images/overo/uImage-overo.bin /mnt/overo/boot/uImage

sudo tar xf tmp/deploy/glibc/images/overo/nodejs-appliance-image-overo.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/overo/

Preparing the Image

rm /etc/rc*.d/**
rm /etc/rc*.d/*usb-gadget*
rm /etc/rc*.d/*dbus*
rm /etc/rc*.d/*bluetooth*
rm /etc/rc*.d/*avahi*

cat - > /etc/resolv.conf.default << EOF
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
EOF

mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
cat - > /usr/local/bin/networking-restart << EOF
#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/networking restart
cp /etc/resolv.conf.default /etc/resolv.conf
# Using FreeDNS as DynDNS
wget http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
EOF

cd /etc/init.d
ln -s ../../usr/local/bin/networking-restart ./
cd ../rc2.d/
ln -s ../init.d/networking-restart S98networking-restart

/etc/init.d/networking-restart

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