A Kodi (XBMC) snap using deb2snap

[Michael Nelson]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:14 AM Sergio Schvezov <
sergio.schvezov at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:13:34PM +0000, Michael Nelson wrote:
>
> 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?
>

The above was to get the required debs installed on a separate Ubuntu
Trusty SD card so that I could use deb2snap... only because I thought that
would be easier.

But...


>
> >  * 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?
>
>
great. So I should be able to install the mir snap, and create and install
a kodi snap myself so that it uses SDL2, and it should just work? If so,
excellent... that would be much neater than relying on deb2snap.

I'll start down that path. Thanks!
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