A Kodi (XBMC) snap using deb2snap

[Oliver Ries]

awesome!

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Michael Nelson <
michael.nelson at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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!
>

[x] beat me to it ;)

Kevin Gunn (EM Mir) might be able to give additional pointers

have fun and let us know how it goes!
O.
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