Why not lime-sdk?

[nicopace]

Hi!
I'm part of the the development team of Libremesh, and caught my attention that you mentioned is pretty similar, but you ended up doing yours.
Would love to know what is on althea-firmware that is not in lime-sdk... perhaps adding those to the latter may mean that we end up mantaining one sdk instead of two ;)
As a bonus track, if that happens, maybe even the librerouter.org will come with support for althea-mesh!

Regards,

[jkilpatr]

Hi @nicopace, sorry I didn't see this sooner!

I looked into forking lime-sdk or simply integrating into it and I found the build process arcane enough to be confusing. Of course it's possible that I'm simply better at Ansible than shell scripts and that changes the way I think.

Regardless I'm sure you could get to the same result using your build system but it seemed to me to be overcomplicated and hard to read, while Ansible is designed to be easily readable and run remotely (like on a build server)

Would you mind outlining how I would go adding some packages and templating config files in lime-sdk? Maybe I'm misinformed about how to do it.

[nicopace]

Hi @jkilpatr , thanks for replying.

Would you mind outlining how I would go adding some packages and templating config files in lime-sdk? Maybe I'm misinformed about how to do it.

It is actually quite simple.
In order to customize an image you can use network profiles.
You have the doc here: https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk#communities
But, just the bare basics:

• run ./cooker --communities to fetch the existing ones, that exist in https://github.com/libremesh/network-profiles
• create a new directory in ./communities/althea/common <- you can have as many profiles as your network needs
• that directory acts as an overlay, so any file or directory that you add there, will get copied over onto the image after all the packages are installed
• you can also add a PACKAGES file in that directory in order to add any package that you might want to have. If the package is outside of the feeds.conf file: https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk/blob/master/feeds.conf.default you will have to add the repository there and add the packages config in here : https://github.com/libremesh/lime-sdk/blob/master/libremesh.sdk.config (that will actually
  should end up being libremesh.sdk.config.local)

That is all!
Please, don't hesitate in reaching me for any question.