Note: The scripts in this repository are deprecated and were replaced with a new script in the git repository hosting the apt repository. The script is now also run automatically by github actions.

box86-2deb weekly script

a script that automatically compiles and packages box86 into a deb using checkinstall.

to download and run:

Please note that the scripts are written for my use case, you will have to tweak them slightly so they work for you.

cd Documents
git clone https://github.com/Itai-Nelken/box86-2deb-weekly-script.git
cd box86-2deb-weekly-script
sudo chmod +x start.sh
./start.sh

to view credits and other info, type: ./start.sh --about. that will show the credits and some more info and exit. to update the scripts, type: ./start.sh --update

Very imprortant notes:

1. This script only works on armhf Debian Linux and Debian based distros.
2. it's VERY IMPORTANT to git clone and run the scripts from their folder in ~/Documents!!
3. the debs version will be the git tag of the just compiled box86 binary (E.G. 0.2.1) followed by a + and the current date (E.G. 20210324) followed by a . and the git sha1 for the commit the box86 binary was built from (E.G. 638b341b). all together it will look lie this for example: 0.2.1+20210324.638b341b.
4. you will need to create a gpg key for the repo signing to work correctly:

sudo apt install gnupg
gpg --full-gen-key

select option 1
enter: 4096
enter: 0
enter: y
enter your name
enter your email address
press ENTER
enter: o

5. by default, this script will compile and package box86 on Tuesday every week until stopped.
   to change to different day, change the Tue in line 195 of box86-2deb-auto.sh to the first 3 letters of any other day, its important that the first letter is capitalized. you can use the table bellow:
   

day "code"	day
Sun	Sunday
Mon	Monsay
Tue	Tuesday
Wed	Wednesday
Thu	Thursday
Fri	Friday
Sat	Staurday

4. The script will only create and move files in ~/Documents/box86-auto-build and ~/Documents/weekly-box86-debs, the final builds will be in ~/Documents/box86-auto-build/debs in both tar.xz archives and uncompressed folders. the name of each folder & archive is the date in which they where built in YY-MM-DD format, for example: 2021-02-19 folder and 2021-02-19.tar.xz archive.
   Inside each folder (and archive) there is the box86 deb named box86_git-tag+gitsha1-1_armhf. (for example: box86_0.2.2+b3e984bd-1_armhf.deb) and a text file named sha1.txt containing the sha1 (git commit "code") for the box86 version in the deb (for example: ade7d82e).
   The script will attempt to upload the deb's and tar.xz's to my apt repo for them, you will have to tweak the upload function or not run it at all.
5. to see my notes for stuff I might need/use/will use, read NOTES.md
6. to run the script without checking for updates or the day, use the run-once-box86-2deb-script.sh.

Logs

the script logs error and warning messages to ~/Documents/box86-auto-build/box86-2deb-weekly_log.log you won't see the actual error, but what part failed. for example:
[ Wed Feb 24 16:24:15 <timezone> 2021 ] | ERROR | Failed to run package-box86 function! (line 199)
of course <timezone> will be your timezone.

License

GNU GPL v3