Build Sailfish OS firmware your own

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Hello Sailfish OS community! I have compiled files and scripts with simple instructions here:

You can build your own fastboot flashable firmware for Jolla, Inoi and other devices using official jolla repositories using your own credentials.

Best wishes

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Nice to see you @coderus - hope you are well and thriving in your job!

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Hi,
This looks cool butā€¦ what is it?
I know this is for devs but I canā€™t resist to be curious.
(I apologize for being only able to read --human-readable things)

Is this for those who have special hardware, maybe?
Thanks

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Remember when you downloaded the archive from Jollaā€™s website and then flashed your phone? With this project youā€™ll be able to produce your own image.

I think you can use this project for various purposes. For instance, you want a newer version of a specific project or as you said for a specific hardware.

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main goal is to build flashable firmware for jolla devices, e.g. jolla1, jollac, inoi r7, jolla tablet, etc.

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Oh really? Wow!
We tried to achieve this for long on N900 without success IIRC (at least for --human-readable people).
So, once the installation is ok, with apps and settings, we can make a flashable image with it? This is so class!

Hmm, only for these devices or specially, but not only?

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yes only officially supported devices. it takes device configuration file - ks, and jolla repositories to download packages from repositories and pack it to flashable images.

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Ok, got it. Thank you much for explaining.

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@coderus many thanks for this instruction and build tool :smiley:.
Can you give any additional information where i can get the values for ā€˜ā€¦ -e DEVICE=l500d -e DEVICE_VENDOR=qualcomm ā€¦ā€™ and what .ks file to use e.g. for the tablet or GeminiPDA?
I did not find this information on this devices it self :thinking:.
EDIT: For the GeminiPDA i got an image on the Jolla shop, but not for the table (or the Jolla Phone) :smirk:.

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check header of build.sh file, it gives you default examples for execution.
also you can get it from your repositories pattern - look at ssu lr output.

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Very nice!
I wanted to build a tablet image since it is such a PITA to upgrade from scratch, but ran into problems.
So simplifying, i used the command from README.md, with my username and password from the credentials-store section of ssu.ini.

The failure iā€™m getting is as follows:

  File "/usr/bin/mic", line 219, in <module>
    sys.exit(mic.main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 257, in main
    return self.cmd(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 280, in cmd
    retval = self.onecmd(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 412, in onecmd
    return self._dispatch_cmd(handler, argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 1084, in _dispatch_cmd
    return handler(argv)
  File "/usr/bin/mic", line 88, in do_create
    cr.main(argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/creator.py", line 266, in main
    return self.cmd(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 280, in cmd
    retval = self.onecmd(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 412, in onecmd
    return self._dispatch_cmd(handler, argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/cmdln.py", line 1100, in _dispatch_cmd
    return handler(argv[0], opts, *args)
  File "/usr/lib/mic/plugins/imager/loop_plugin.py", line 68, in do_create
    creator.check_depend_tools()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/imager/baseimager.py", line 1303, in check_depend_tools
    fs.find_binary_path(tool)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mic/utils/fs_related.py", line 60, in find_binary_path
    raise CreatorError("Command '%s' is not available." % binary)
mic.utils.errors.CreatorError: <creator>Command 'modprobe' is not available.

Iā€™m not very familiar with dockerā€¦ but the common ways to get a shell and poke around in the container is failing with this one.

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Have you tried just installing modprobe and making it available in your PATH? Or is that error in the container?

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I just assumed it is from inside the container, since it would have no business messing with my host system. And for completeness, the command is available on the host.

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hello, you running it not in my container, isnā€™t it?

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Not sure i understandā€¦ i assumed the commands were to be run from host, and ā€œdocker run ā€¦ā€ does the magic.

attah@obsidian repos/sfos-builder $ docker build -t sfos-builder .
attah@obsidian repos/sfos-builder $ docker run --privileged --rm -it -v $PWD:/share -w /share -e RELEASE=4.3.0.15 -e USERNAME=attah -e PASSWORD=$SuperSecretPassword -e ARCH=armv7hl -e DEVICE=l500d -e DEVICE_VENDOR=qualcomm sfos-builder l500d-eu-lvm.ks

Then it very much looks like mic inside then container is complaining about missing modprobe.

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Hmm, seems i got a bit further nowā€¦ added this to the Dockerfile:

test -f /usr/sbin/modprobe || zypper -n in kmod

(not sure that is where modprobe is expected to end up though)

Now itā€™s complaining about missing feature-sailfish-eas. Hmmm.

Edit: that might be because of credentials from unlicensed phoneā€¦ trying another.
Edit2: Crapā€¦ unauthorized, does it need to be from an architecture-matching device? Or identical to the target?

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Credentials from a matching device did the trick!
But i seem to be missing output filesā€¦ i only got 6 for the tablet, and not any sailfish.img* files.
Looking back at the output, grep seems to have been missing and dd failedā€¦ but despite that the job claimed to be successful.

Edit: and ā€œā€˜gnu-grepā€™ is already installed.ā€ but maybe not as /bin/grep which something seems to want?
Edit2: test -f /bin/grep || ln -s /usr/bin/grep /bin/grep in Dockerfile fixed thatā€¦ now it is missing /usr/bin/img2simg_jolla
I donā€™t think that is from droid-tools-imager and canā€™t figure out what package to addā€¦

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itā€™s installed into /usr/local/bin, check if itā€™s inside path

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Path is as follows: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin (at least when the Dockerfile executes)
And indeed /usr/local/bin/img2simg_jolla exists.
But for some reason it is expected in /usr/bin/

Symlinkingā€¦

Edit: Success! Iā€™ll send you my diff in an issue when iā€™ve made dinner.

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ah okay probably my fault, iā€™ll inspect ks files

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