Mouaad Aallam

GSoC'16: The End

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:01:00 +0000

“Congratulations! You have successfully passed GSoC 2016!”, This is how the email I received begins, informing me that I successfully passed the Final Evaluation, and declaring the end of Google Summer Of Code 2016.

After more than three months of GSoC’16, the adventure comes to its end. It has been a great time working with my mentors and colleagues, creating, learning and getting involved in the project.

GSoC’16 was only the start, I will keep my involvement in the Debian Project, and gladly keep contributing to the project under android-tools packaging team and maybe becoming a DM or a DD one day! :)

Regards,
Mouaad

Google Summer Of Code 2016 Certification

Debian Chroot in Ubuntu

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:51:00 +0000

In order to develop and package for Debian, a testing environment is required, that’s why I’ve setup a Debian chroot environment in my computer (Ubuntu) using Debootstrap.

Chroot using Debootstrap Simplified Diagram

To do this I’ve run the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get install schroot dchroot debootstrap
$ sudo debootstrap sid /sid-root http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/

Then I appended to the file /etc/fstab the following lines:

/home             /sid-root/home                none    bind            0       0
/opt              /sid-root/opt                 none    bind            0       0
/tmp              /sid-root/tmp                 none    bind            0       0
/dev              /sid-root/dev                 none    bind            0       0
proc-chroot       /sid-root/proc                proc    defaults        0       0
devpts-chroot     /sid-root/dev/pts	        devpts  defaults        0       0
binfmt_misc	  /sid-root/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc  binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
sysfs		  /sid-root/sys                 sysfs   rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime  0  0

$ mount -a

To the file /etc/schroot/schroot.conf I appended:

[sid-root]
description=Debian sid
directory=/sid-root
aliases=default
users=mouaad

And finaly :

$ sudo su -c 'echo "stretch /sid-root" > /etc/dchroot.conf'

Now to change to chroot, simply type:

$ dchroot #sudo chroot for root

Now that I am in the chroot I’ve run the following commands to setup the environment for packaging:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install debconf devscripts gnupg
$ apt-get install locales
$ locale-gen

And finally, the debian chroot environment is ready!

Sources:

GSOC'16

Tue, 17 May 2016 12:00:00 +0000

“GSoC 2016: Congratulations, your proposal with Debian Project has been accepted!”, this was the title of the email I received confirming my admission to the Google Summer Of Code program this summer (2016). Link

I’m really excited about this especially because this is my first big step into FOSS world as a developer.

The organization I will be collaborating with is Debian. The goal of my project is to have the entire Android toolchain and SDK in Debian ! You can check more details about the project here.

The First step of GSOC is the “Community Bonding” period, therefore, I had the pleasure to meet my mentors and colleagues that I will collaborate with during the next “Coding Period”, which starts from May 23rd to August 23rd, 2016 !

Update 26 May 2016:

GSoC'16 Welcome Package

Looking forward to summer ! :D

Happy Coding,
Mouaad