A Kodi (XBMC) snap using deb2snap

[Sergio Schvezov]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:13:34PM +0000, Michael Nelson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Like a few others, I'm quite new to both RPi and snappy and have just been
> tinkering a bit with cloud instances running snappy.
> 
> I've got a raspberry pi 2, and wanted to try using deb2snap [1] (thanks
> mterry!) to create a Kodi (formally XBMC) [2] snap - only because I thought
> it'd be a good learning experience and produce something potentially useful
> to others (it's already know to work well on RPi [3]).

\o/

> I've written up a bit about how I think I should be able to do that [4],
> basically:
>  * Install  Ubuntu Trusty for rPi2 on a separate SD card,
>  * install XMir (from source, for newer XMir) and Kodi,

Why not the pure mir snap?

>  * Setup deb2snap and play with various package inclusions/exclusions
>  * sideload and test using the snappy SD card
> 
> But I could be way off target. If people familiar with using deb2snap with
> XMir can take a look and let me know, it might save me a few hours this
> weekend. Also, is it possible to do the building on something faster than
> the RPi2? (probably not worth creating a package with XMir and deb2snap for
> trusty and using PPAs - not even sure if that'd be possible if XMir isn't
> supported pre-Wily anymore).

Why not pure mir and kodi set (compiled) to use SDL2?