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| mmcc | Hi, I'm trying to familiarize myself with ubiquity in order to help out on the ubuntu one plugin that mvo started - is there a README or wiki page somewhere with a description of how to set up a test environment for working on plugins? | 22:55 |
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| xnox | mmcc: hello. It's mostly wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity | 23:18 |
| xnox | and pages from there. | 23:18 |
| xnox | You can run ubiquity from your host but it's not advised. It's better to boot into a VM and replaces files/packages in the life system and restart ubiquity. | 23:19 |
| xnox | try ubuntu is the easiest, while "install only" mode is less resource hungry. | 23:19 |
| xnox | You can switch to tty1 and stop lightdm, pkill -9 X and then modify files as needed (e.g. wget from host 192.168.122.1 and start ubiquity again with $ sudo start ubiquity) | 23:20 |
| xnox | mmcc: I thought mandel was already working on the U1 plugin. | 23:20 |
| xnox | some of the code is here: https://code.launchpad.net/~mvo/ubiquity/ssologin | 23:21 |
| xnox | mandel: did you have anything more? | 23:21 |
| mmcc | xnox: thanks. I was following the notes in mvo's branch in a raring vm, but it appears to be missing some things | 23:29 |
| xnox | mmcc: hm? | 23:29 |
| xnox | mmcc: note that we build from lp:ubiquity branch | 23:29 |
| xnox | and that ubiquity in addition to it's own source code embeds a few other packages. | 23:29 |
| mmcc | I started from https://code.launchpad.net/~mvo/ubiquity/ssologin/+merge/137264 | 23:30 |
| xnox | So to build .debs either: $ bzr bd _or_ ./debian/rules update-local && fakeroot ./debian/rules binary | 23:30 |
| xnox | mmcc: mvo's work was work in progress and not completed, somebody needs to pick it up, test and fix up things that are missing / not implemented. | 23:31 |
| mmcc | ah, that sounds better. the comments that mvo wrote just had a few 'sudo cp' etc | 23:31 |
| mmcc | xnox: yes, that somebody is me. mandel did start it but got moved around | 23:31 |
| xnox | mmcc: Ok =) welcome on board. I can help you out with ubiquity side of things, as long as you fiddle with sso side of things enough for it to correctly authenticate, get the cookie/token and store it for the user correctly. | 23:32 |
| mmcc | I will also have dobey helping, so do not despair :) | 23:32 |
| mmcc | thanks! I believe mvo actually got pretty far with that. I'm still getting up to speed with how far, though - this assignment happened last thursday | 23:33 |
| xnox | mmcc: yeah. he did do a bit. The visuals & wireframes have changed since then. I can help with hooking this new plugin into the correct places in the installer & integrate transition to it and from it to the shutdown. But I haven't run mvo's code yet. | 23:35 |
| mmcc | xnox: do you have time for a few dumb questions or is it past EOD for you? | 23:38 |
| xnox | mmcc: i just came from volleyball training =) and I have a bit of time for a quick Q&A. | 23:42 |
| * xnox is reading email, RSS and other random stuff =) | 23:42 | |
| xnox | go on =) | 23:42 |
| mmcc | ah, ok thanks. So I suspect the instructions on the wiki assume I'm using kvm | 23:43 |
| mmcc | do you know if anyone has tried using virtualbox? | 23:43 |
| xnox | kvm, virtualbox, vmware all should work. | 23:43 |
| xnox | virtualbox both free and oracle edition. | 23:43 |
| mmcc | ok | 23:43 |
| mmcc | so I'm not totally clear on what I would need to get from 192.168.122.1 , which you mentioned and is also on the wiki. That's a bridge to the host, correct? | 23:45 |
| xnox | right. so boot into live cd -> try ubuntu. | 23:45 |
| xnox | you should get normal desktop | 23:45 |
| xnox | check that you have internets. | 23:46 |
| xnox | then in the terminal you can either bzr branch or wget or whatever retrieve the new bits. | 23:46 |
| xnox | then you can either monkey patch into /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins (it's all python ;-) ) or install/upgrade a proper/fully built .deb | 23:47 |
| xnox | then just launch ubiquity and see how far you get. | 23:47 |
| xnox | this typo of development cycle is a bit long, but it's easy enough to start with. | 23:47 |
| mmcc | ok, I see. | 23:48 |
| xnox | you notice that plugins in the begging have priorities, e.g. AFTER = 'language' WEIGHT=12 will move your plugin to be the second page (first page is language). | 23:48 |
| xnox | this is quite long-winded. | 23:48 |
| mmcc | hmm, all this is slightly complicated by the fact that I'm working on a mac (mac os x host, linux VM) | 23:49 |
| mmcc | (the mac u1 client is what I was hired to work on, initially :) | 23:49 |
| xnox | heh wel mac is almost a unix which is almost like linux. | 23:50 |
| mmcc | close enough for a lot of things, but unfortunately I think building a .deb isn't well supported :) | 23:50 |
| infinity | fink? | 23:51 |
| xnox | mmcc: I know that ev uses mac os x host & he even had like a folder sharing between mac os x & the VM and then he would just script copying files over. | 23:51 |
| xnox | mmcc: in that case just work on the python plugin & drop it into /usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ | 23:51 |
| xnox | the only thing we need to do is skip past all the installation BS and go straight to user configuration. | 23:52 |
| mmcc | infinity: I haven't used fink in a long time, but I'm not sure it'd help me build a deb on the mac that could be installed in ubuntu... (but I could be wrong) | 23:52 |
| * xnox ponders if one can execute oem-config from the live environment. | 23:52 | |
| mmcc | xnox: that leads me to another question I had - do I need to be using raring to work on this? | 23:53 |
| mmcc | the reason I ask is that the virtualbox guest additions didn't install correctly on raring, so the shared folder stuff doesn't work. (I use it regularly on quantal and it works great) | 23:53 |
| xnox | mmcc: in the end it has to work on raring. It must be in python3, you can use python3-oauthlib (if you need oauth). | 23:55 |
| xnox | mmcc: the diff between raring and quantal ubiquity is ~ 1000 in total, but the plugin interface didn't change that much. | 23:56 |
| xnox | i think you should be ok using quantal. | 23:57 |
| mmcc | ok, thanks - I'll probably be able to make raring work, but it's good to know I'm not stuck. | 23:57 |
| xnox | mmcc: mvo did a test-loader plugin such that one can load just one plugin and unit-test it. | 23:58 |
| xnox | that means that the bulk of U1 integration can be done on e.g. mac os x without the VM. with test driven development. | 23:59 |
| xnox | but you should be using/targeting python 3.3 | 23:59 |
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