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Minutiaeworkflow | OpenELEC Mediacenter Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install Guide Manual Installation Dual Boot Network Boot - NFS Network Boot - iSCSI User guide Adding Media Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from sourceMinutiaeworkflow Downloads Forum Donate Home DocumentationMinutiaeworkflow Table of contents: Introduction Customizing Scripts Creating A Patch Patch Notes Kernel Config Introduction OpenELEC exists considering of one-man's idea for an appliance-like OS that grew legs and ran. Since the lineage of the project in 2009 there have been hundreds of contributors, and the team has a long and positive record of engagement with other upstream projects; notably Kodi where several OE staff are moreover official Kodi team members. OpenELEC continues to be a community-led effort and donations of user time, effort (and code!) are welcomed.Minutiaeis centered on Github. This is moreover where "Request for Enhancement's" (RFE's) and triaged issue reports are submitted. You are politely reminded that Github is our minutiae tool; anything posted to Github automatically notifies (or spams, depending on your point of view) the unshortened OpenELEC developer team. It is an towardly place for users to provide information on triaged and "confirmed" bugs. The correct place for users to ask for first-help is the forum. Once a problem has been assessed and confirmed as a bug a Github issue report will be accepted. If you submit unconfirmed Github tickets with "I can't get my wireless to work" the ticket will be sealed quickly, and often with unmodified comments. Please (pretty please) use the forums to personize bugs first! Github master: https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv Github RFE and Issue reports: https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues OpenELEC developers moreover hang out in the #openelec IRC waterworks to discuss project things in wing to providing users with deeper and real-time technical assistance. After compiling OpenELEC you may want to know how to make changes to the build system. This allows you to make patches and submit pull requests (PR's). Customizing The build system will trammels in two places for custom options. This makes it so you don't have to touch the stock options. You can use multiple options files, and they will over ride each other. So you can have a overall options file and project specific options files. ~/.openelec/options ~/.openelec/PROJECT/options PROJECT stuff one of the misogynist projects in the projects directory in the source tree. Scripts Here is a unravelment of scripts that you will you while making a patch This will build a specific package in the build tree PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/build kodi This will wipe (remove) a specific package from the build tree PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/clean kodi This will unpack a specific package into the build tree PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/unpack kodi This will pull the source from git/svn and package it for you. This is useful if you want to use a specific version or branch. ./tools/mkpkg/mkpkg_kodi This will wipe all build folders make wipe This will make a release tarball that can be use to update OpenELEC hands PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make release This will make an image that can be written directly to a disk PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make image Making an image requires super user permissions. We are not responsible if something happens to your system. Creating A Patch Here is the workflow to create a patch PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/clean kodi PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/unpack kodi cd build.OpenELEC-Generic.i386-devel cp -r kodi-14-b5dbdb5 kodi-14-b5dbdb5.orig Make some changes to the kodi-14-b5dbdb5 package, then trammels the unequal unequal -Naur kodi-14-b5dbdb5.orig kodi-14-b5dbdb5 If everything looks good, unequal -Naur kodi-14-b5dbdb5.orig kodi-14-b5dbdb5 > ../packages/mediacenter/kodi/patches/kodi-201-very-descriptive-name.patch cd .. Build it! PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/clean kodi PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/build kodi Patch Notes Patches must follow the same naming convention, however, sometimes variegated amounts of digits are used. Look at other patches to decide. Try and make the name descriptive without it stuff too long If you want to submit a patch make sure to include you name/email/contact as a scuttlebutt in the patch! Kernel Config Adjusting the kernel config is weightier washed-up by using the tools in the package, not by editing the kernel config directly PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/clean linux PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/unpack linux cd build.OpenELEC-Generic.i386-devel/linux-3.19.0 cp ../../projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf .config then run kernel configuration with make menuconfig or make xconfig or make qconfig Make the changes you would like. Save them and exit the config utility. cp .config ../../projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf cd ../.. Then build it PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/clean linux PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 ./scripts/build linux Copyright © 2009-2018 OpenELEC . All Rights Reserved. Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install Guide Manual Installation Dual Boot Network Boot - NFS Network Boot - iSCSI User guide Adding Media Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from sourceMinutiaeworkflow Downloads Forum Donate