Replicant

h1. BuildEnvironments

h2. Rationale

Each revision of Android is meant to be compiled with a specific set of dependencies. No effort is made upstream to support multiple build environments.

Building with different environments often yields build errors due to untested dependencies versions.

So we document here how to recreate these recommended build environments.

h2. Recommended environment history

Ubuntu support:

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          ,2013-10-15 - Lucid   (10.04)

2013-10-15,2015-03-16 - Precise (12.04), probably with 4.4 KitKat - https://web.archive.org/web/20131015123913/http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

2015-03-16,           - Trusty  (14.04) https://web.archive.org/web/20150316053136/https://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

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Java support:

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          ,2014-03-31 - Sun JDK 5/6

2014-03-31,           - OpenJDK 7 - https://web.archive.org/web/20140331004436/https://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

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h2. Ubuntu 14.04 with LXC

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lxc-create -n android -t download -- -d ubuntu -r trusty -a amd64

lxc-start -n replicant -d

lxc-attach -n replicant

# clean-up non-free sources

sed -i -e 's/ restricted//' -e 's/ multiverse//' /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update

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h2. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise with LXC

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lxc-create -n replicant -t download -- -d ubuntu -r precise -a amd64

lxc-start -n replicant -d

lxc-attach -n replicant

# clean-up non-free sources

sed -i -e 's/ restricted//' -e 's/ multiverse//' /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update

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h2. Trisquel 4.1 Taranis (based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid) with LXC

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wget http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.59ubuntu0.3+7.0trisquel1.tar.gz

tar xzf debootstrap_1.0.59ubuntu0.3+7.0trisquel1.tar.gz 

cp -a debootstrap-1.0.59ubuntu0.3+7.0trisquel1/scripts/{taranis,trisquel} /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/

cp -a /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-ubuntu /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-trisquel

sed -i -e 's/main restricted universe multiverse/main/' \

       -e 's/.*lxcguest/#&/' /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-trisquel

lxc-create -n test -t trisquel --  -r taranis -a amd64 --mirror http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/ \

  --security-mirror http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/

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h2. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid with LXC

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apt-get install ubuntu-archive-keyring

lxc-create -n replicant -t ubuntu -- -r lucid -a amd64

lxc-start -n replicant -d

lxc-attach -n replicant

# clean-up non-free sources

sed -i -e 's/ restricted//' -e 's/ multiverse//' /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update

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h2. LXC host environment

The simplest way to configure LXC is to combine it with libvirt.

Here are instructions tested on a Debian 8 host:

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apt-get install lxc debootstrap

apt-get install libvirt-bin dnsmasq ebtables

service dnsmasq stop

update-rc.d dnsmasq remove

virsh net-autostart default

service libvirtd restart

cat > /etc/lxc/default.conf <<'EOF'

lxc.network.type = veth

lxc.network.flags = up

lxc.network.link = virbr0

EOF

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You now can run the LXC containers instructions above.

h2. Non-privileged user setup

This can be used in any environment to prepare a non-root user dedicated to builds.

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# prepare build user

apt-get install openssh-server

useradd replicant --shell /bin/bash --create-home

mkdir -p -m 700 ~replicant/.ssh

cat <<EOF >> ~replicant/.ssh/authorized_keys

your public key

EOF

chown -R replicant: ~replicant

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